Archive for the ‘parenting’ Category
2012
Parenting a Teen
I have a bunch of littles (sometimes it feels like fifty but really it is just three) and one daughter firmly entrenched in her teen years. So many blogs are devoted to parenting a young child; I thought it might be a refreshing change to address what it is like to be an attachment parent with a teenager.
2011
Santa Doesn’t Stop Here
When Hannah was eight, she found out about Santa. She sadly looked at her baby brother and then looked up at me and said “So it was all a lie? Please don’t do that to Patrick.”
2011
The Importance of Being Willow
Willow is the one that leaves the huz and I shaking our heads in exasperation, and occasionally quaking in our boots when we think about the future. She has a spine of steel. She has buckets of self confidence and she is just so damn secure in her own awesomeness.
