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I grew up a cryer.  I was a very emotional child, and the slightest little change in the weather had me bawling my eyes out.  I cried for tw...

Zane and I were walking to our car in the school parking lot, as were several other parents who had picked up their children. I asked Zane a...

Larry and I were upstairs relaxing(otherwise known as "adult swim"), when Zane came racing upstairs. He looked nervous. He had hi...

Zane had a cough.  He's had a cough for some time, and he'd already had one doctor visit for it at the beginning of June.  Just a ra...

When I became a mom, I was envious of all the other moms out there.  They always made being moms seem so easy!  My mom friends wouldn't ...

Tap, tap, tap Softly in the darkness, Tap, tap, tap A cadence in my brain Tap, tap, tap Brings me out of my dreams. I open one bleary eye ...

My parents are a model for good parenting, I would say. My brother and I were fed, clothed, educated, and kept relatively healthy. We were ...

No matter what anyone tells you, parenting is always a work in progress.  You're always learning to be a parent; there's never any ...

Warriors were once essential to the survival of a society .  They were the protectors, the defenders of the group.  As such, these individua...

When the news first broke about the incident in Steubenville , Ohio , part of me was glad.  The more of these incidents that see the light o...

O nce upon a time, I had the bright idea that raising boys would be easier than raising girls.  After all, I said to myself, boys don't ...

optional prompt: down time There's quite a few things that nobody tells you about having children.  One of the big things that ge...

Mamakat's prompt : Share a parenting moment where you really began to realize what this mothering thing is all about. I didn't re...

They're having a party in Z's class tomorrow, and we were given a list of the names of the kids so he(me) can make sure that they...

Online Colleges Somehow I won this parenting blog award from www.ecollegefinder.org, and since I am always desperately in need of validat...

We were met by my son's teacher yesterday at pickup time. She was concerned about the 'bathroom talk'. I was momentarily confus...

Zane learned a new trick at daycare. It's all about drama at the daycare these days. Not only is there REAL crying, now there's th...

Yesterday, while I was in a meeting on a campus, my cell phone vibrated. I saw that it was my son's daycare. My stomach gave a little ...

We have been having a long running "discussion" with my son. When Zane was younger, clothing was essential; everybody had to be dr...

When I was a teenager, I would be at the pool every single day during the summer. Of course, I had a pretty nice body back then, before life...