Archive for Parenting
Take Your Annoying Daughter to Work Day
Years before Corporate America came up with the idea, my mother was sending her daughter to work.
With clenched teeth she would present me to my father and say,
“Take. HER. With. You.”
To be fair to my mother, I was the third in three years, a complete surprise, and would have been a boy had my mother [...]
Good News Sandwich
I have attended my share of parenting and relationship classes and seminars in the past almost seven years. Each year, as foster parents, my husband and I are expected to get 50 hours of training in some sort of family building genre. I thought I’d share one of my favorites. The Good News Sandwich.
As any [...]
Socially Active Teens
She always has the best stories. One such reminded me of this.
Our pediatrician is an American by choice. Austrian by birth. His bedside manner as well as his english have a lot to be desired, but I can call, get in, see him, get a prescription filled and be home in under an hour. [...]
