My husband's parenting powers lack a certain shall we say, prowess? When he shouts: 'Okay kids, time for bed!' they pay him no heed. And when he orders them to clean up their room, they vanish into thin air. Mom Power: use it sparingly I usually pretend I don't see. Because how else is he...
Source: Shutterstock 'The kids go back to school tomorrow...' 'I know! Isn't it awful?! I didn't sleep at all tonight. 'I'm soo dreading it. These months have just flówn by. That's what you get when you're enjoying yourself thís much: time just flies. We built the Eiffeltower from old newspapers 'Oh, I had such a...
After she has made us contort our bodies in every possible direction, my yoga teacher always whispers some calming words and finishes the lesson by saying solemnly: 'Just bé.' And as I was spending time with my kids, contorting myself in every direction as a mom, trying to do the best I could, I realized...
Last week my eldest son turned 18. And I wanted to give him something special. Something he can look at when he's 80 and say: 'This is what my parents gave me when I turned eighteen. Isn't it lovely?' But what do you give to an 18 year old boy who's main interest is computer...
I kept reading reviews of Caitlin Morans book How to Be a Woman. How to be a woman, is an autobiography of Caitlin Moran's life, and it's a book about feminine stuff you encounter as a woman. So when I wandered through the library, and I saw it standing there on a shelf, I jumped...
Why isn't there a symbol for movies that warns: 'Totally Unsuitable For Moms'?! There I was, innocently tuning into a series called Love my Way, a big bowl of potato chips on my lap. But just as I crammed the first fistful of chips into my mouth, the eight year old girl of one of...
'You can't outrun the long arm of the law!' Kenny Rogers warned, but how far do the arms, and influence of a mom reach? After lots of struggling and hitting each other with different research results, psychologists finally agree: a child's development is equally determined by parenting, environment and genetics. Yet as a mom I...
A mom's journey is filled with boobytraps and bad jokes. For example: Do you know the one about the mom who went to the toystore, to get her child the toy said child had whined about for months? When she got home, her kid didn't like it. Hahahaha. And do you know the joke about...
'How can I miss you if you won't go away,' Eldon Hunt wondered, and I belted along in total agreement. Now that the kids have finally left for school, I can feel how much I miss them in the blissful silence of an empty house. Suddenly I remember how much I love them, as I...
Even though we love our kids, we all have those days. Those days when the days stretches out before you, with endless hours of reading The Little Engine that Could, until you can't no more! So when I first heard Nancy White's song 'The Children's Entertainer' I felt quite overcome! Finally someone who knew how...
