How To Help Your Child Cope With Grief
A few months ago my thirty-nine year old health food eating, wilderness expert, herbalist, martial arts loving partner (otherwise known as The Man) had a heart attack. Needless to say, it blew us out of the water. We were far from expecting that. Fortunately he’s made a steady recovery and just recently (four months later!) went back to work. In this More...
Speaking To Your Toddler About Disabilities
When my oldest children were small we’d been swimming at the local pool one hot summer day. The kids were in the pool and I had to run back to the car for something. On my way out of the pool area I saw a little More...
My Child WHAT? (What to do when you find out you have one of THOSE kids.)
Before I had children I’d see little kids who bit other kids or bullied or pushed or…whatever. And, like most people, my thinking was something along the lines of “Oh what a bad mother. She must More...
What Now? (written by The Toddler)
This was originally posted at The Abby Gales in July, 2011 First I had to learn English for these boobs. They hadn’t bothered to learn any of my words and couldn’t understand me. Then they looked surprised More...
Monday’s Child and a River Dog
[media-credit id=68 align="alignleft" width="300"][/media-credit]Mondays’ Child is fair of face. The Toddler is adorable. I’m not just being biased. Other people will stop us wherever we are and tell More...
Potty Training or Else
[media-credit id=68 align="alignleft" width="225"][/media-credit]…or not at all. I thought I had it this time. We bought three boxes of those awful individually packaged fruit snacks because The Toddler adores More...
Big Busy Days and Breakdowns
[media-credit id=68 align="aligncenter" width="216"][/media-credit]This past week has been kind of busy for us. The Toddler and I are used to being stuck …trapped …at home with each other pleading More...
The “Terrible” Twos
[Previously published on Respectfully Disrespectful] Elisa Ashley "Terribly Two" I hear screaming from the living room: “I can’t DO IT!” This is accompanied by minor thunking sounds and whispers More...
