Rock bottom

When you play your trump card, and things don't turn out the way you planned, there's nothing else to do but to try and save face. Insufficient evidence So in the matter of the mystery of the Stolen Bonbons I find that there is insufficient evidence to try and convict anybody. The perp has not...

'Mom, I need a haircut,' my eldest son Jan who's sixteen told me. He's been sporting this terrible 'emo hairdo' which looks like some toddler took a pair of scissors to it. I still can't believe I actually had to páy the hair dresser to get it looking like that... Why don't you let your...

As a mom it's very important to me, my kids are well mannered. So if somebody says something, and they didn't quite catch it, I don't want them saying: 'Huh?' The correct answer is...  To teach them this, for every 'Huh', I offer the correct response: 'What did you say?' Unfortunately this parenting method turned...

Every Monday night my husband and I like to watch Grey's Anatomy together. This medical drama premiered in 2005 and is still going strong! There's lots of drama, romance and also parenting in Grey's Anatomy. I especially like the parenting stuff because it can be quite insightful, and sometimes downright funny. Mothers have a life...

When we moved to the countryside I finally gave in, and we got two cats. Four years later we even got a little dog. But for many years, I firmly put my foot down when it came to pets. In 2011 I wrote this post about it. Mean Mom Syndrome For years now, I've been...

Kenny Rogers knew what he was singing about when he sang: 'You gotta know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away.' If only I had folded before the stakes got too high! It all started when my eldest daughter came to me sporting an almost empty box of...