Your children are loved in school. Regardless of ability, personality, someone in your child’s school cares deeply about seeing them thrive and become someone who does their best. The problem is that that person may now be with ten students that have greater needs than your child. I worked in Read more…
Oh, snap! What a year we just had. We began the year blissfully unaware of what was happening in our children’s school. We dropped them off, we picked them up. Largely the end of the story. That’s how it was for a while until I realized our oldest son’s outbursts Read more…
Alex and I have been together for over eight years. I was telling him a story this morning, I can’t remember what about… nothing terribly memorable apparently… and it was about something random that happened right before we met… I told him it seemed like a different life, and in Read more…
When Covid hit, we were ill-prepared to have both kids back home every moment of the day. Add to that, we were at a crossroads with our then two-and-a-half year old youngest son where we needed to start teaching him things that would prepare him for preschool. There was a Read more…
I want my kids to aim for the sky in life, but I don’t want them to aim for perfection. Perfection isn’t real, its an illusion. Maybe it drives some people, but I feel like it will always amount to disappointment. Instead, I want to be encouraging and promote improving. Read more…
After we delivered our first baby, I was only 15-20 lbs more than my pre-pregnancy weight right after I had him. I had a lot of trauma at delivery and was restricted with TONS of physical therapy for the five months following, and ended up putting back on the weight Read more…
First, a little tiny bit of back-story I think of myself as a pretty motivated person. I have some lazy attributes, but I try and put my best foot forward consistently. I am someone in the middle of a ten-kid family, and was raised in a home with three Read more…
So, anyone who follows this blog knows that not yelling has become our primary objective as parents. I felt like I was breaking our toddlers will and joy every time my volume went up, and I didn’t like it when he screamed in response. I’ve always said nice things to Read more…
I’ve never been an asshole to our two-year on….. on purpose… that’s not to say I never asked him what the hell he was doing? It’s called Pottymouth Parents for a reason, our kids will be fine… chill. I found, however, that I was hurting my child’s feelings. Not Read more…
Here is a brief list to help you inspire acts of kindness in your children. You may read and think of your own, feel free to comment with anything you do, or want to do to motivate your own kids to be kind. Pick up trash around town. Call Read more…
We bought a leash for our child. The doctor and the behavioral evaluators that came to the house said Cole was behind in speech. What he’s not behind on is his physical aptitude. He basically plays at the physical level of a four-and-a-half year old. He’s fast, very fast, he Read more…
Our two-year-old didn’t really sleep through the night until he was over one, but something I could usually count on was some sort or break while he napped. Around age two, when our newest was only two months old, he decided naps were no longer necessary. He started banging and Read more…
Survey says….Not to yell…. I get off on some tangents here, so bare with me I was never spanked much as a child. It was the eighties though, so it happened on two occasions that I remember clear as day. I remember it largely because I disagree with why I Read more…
We have a two-year-old. He’s our world. When he’s sweet, he’s the sweetest person of all, but he isn’t always sweet. I would never say it to his face, but sometimes he can be an ass. He throws stuff, he kicks, he slaps, he can be generally unpleasant. He’s two. Read more…
10 Tips For Getting Your Picky Little Eater to EAT. We have a two-year-old. Our beautiful boy who would once eat whatever he was served, has now discovered enough autonomy that he now has opinions about foods. It drives…. me….. INSANE. I don’t let him see it, but in my Read more…
Before we had kids, the most I paid attention to breast feeding was people discussing whether its appropriate to breast feed in public or not. I never knew much else. What no one tells you is that its really, REALLY hard work. My first son didn’t want to nurse. He Read more…
Last night, shortly after writing my last blog post I went into the hospital because I tested my blood pressure and it was pretty high. I had Preeclampsia after delivering my last son, so I knew it was a risk factor and decided to exercise extra caution because of it. Read more…
So we have a 20 month old. He’s insane and he climbs on everything and jumps on everything, and touches anything… firstly, anything that he is sure he is NOT supposed to play with. And then we have me… SUPER pregnant, third trimester, ridiculously exhausted and while I get bursts Read more…