Because natural isn't always possible — or easy.
Posted in Emotional development, Play, School and education on May 27th, 2010
My big girl’s play was today. I missed the 1 p.m. performance. I had a meeting I couldn’t get out of. She was the narrator. She was supposed to run onto the stage and start the play. Instead of running, though she tripped, or so my mother and husband told me. She went down hard, [...]
Posted in Play, Safety, School and education, parenting on May 24th, 2010
First, some disclosures. I do not like the water all that much. I don’t like getting my hair wet. I don’t like bathing suits. I hate the sun. (Pasty skin will do that to you.) Second, my big girl inherited my “love” of the water. I did not do this to her. My husband, a [...]
Posted in Environment, Going Green, Play, Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, Sustainable on May 6th, 2010
Take a look at the photo above. Ignore the fact that it is an obvious attempt to give my kids all the stuff I never had as a child. Also, that it looks like a daycare or a school. Then take another look. Know how much I paid for everything? About $300 total including the [...]
Posted in Favorite Things Friday, Play, Siblings on Apr 30th, 2010
Seems like I am always late to post on Friday. End of the week catch-up, I guess. No theme today. Just some sites, services and stuff I’ve found in the past week. BookSwim. Last week I bought The Red Tent. It was our book club selection. I wanted to take it out of the library [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Play, Safety, School and education on Apr 14th, 2010
As regular readers might remember Katelyn learned to ride her bike a few weeks ago. As of this past weekend she was doing really well, but still needed to master some of the more difficult aspects of the task: turns, getting started on her own, weaving. So on Saturday I set out to teach her. [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Play, parenting on Mar 11th, 2010
Yesterday I decided to take the 20 minutes between when the big girl got off the bus and when the sitter came to try the whole bike riding thing again. Katelyn was thrilled. “No screaming,” she promised. We started down the street. She was shaky, but doing much better than she did the day before. [...]
Katelyn got her American Girl Bitty Baby when she was about three. I was in the city for a girls’ weekend with three of my good friends. We went to American Girl to look around. I ended up walking out with a set of Bitty Twins. I took one, while my friend, who has a [...]
First off: My first two-post day! A friend just e-mailed an article to me and a few other friends. The Washington Post has a story written about some time management stats out of the University of Maryland. According to John Robinson, a researcher and time management guru, moms and dads have plenty of free time. [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Going Green, Play on Jan 21st, 2010
Yesterday Keira and I took a mommy-and-me art class. When we got there, we played Play-Doh. Okay, easy enough. Not a huge environmental impact. But then came the projects. The first one was drawing with creamy crayons on a piece of paper. I couldn’t find the ingredients online, but I can tell you that they [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Friendship, Play on Jan 2nd, 2010
It’s January 2. I can’t believe how fast these past two weeks have flown. Heck, I can’t believe how fast the last decade went by. On Thursday, I was watching trending topics on Twitter when I came across #tenyearsago. If you’re not on Twitter, I will explain. (And if you are, you should be following [...]
