I am a big fan of using choice as a way to coerce kids into doing what I want them to do. I learned this early in my teaching career. I used to spout platitudes like, “You always have a choice, it just may not be a good choice,” but I got tired of hearing […]
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Those Annoying Christmas Letters: A Rant
It’s the advent of Christmas Card Season, when things other than bills grace my mailbox. Whenever I get a Christmas card, I go through the Kubler-Ross stages of emotions, from denial (It’s not Christmas again, is it?), to guilt (I really should send Christmas cards), to bargaining (If you’re going to send me a card, […]
TV Or Not TV…That Used To Be a Question
I was once one of those holier-than-thou women who – in spite of having no children – had very specific ideas on how to raise them. I recounted many of these myths in So Much for My Kid Commandments. The ideal that has crashed to the ground the hardest, however, is no TV in the […]