February 26, 2013 – 8:59 am
Heavy makeup, curled hair, bedazzled dresses. I gape as my soccer-gear- wearing daughter appears transformed into a curious mix between an Irish Step Dancer and a low rent hooker. And she doesn’t even seem to mind! In fact, on a Saturday morning she and her contemporaries are gussied up and on a bus at the [...]
January 16, 2012 – 10:36 pm
Am I the last person to know about the Kahn Academy? This is the most brilliant website ever! I am not ashamed to admit that my kids’ math classes have surpassed my memory of quadratic equations and plotting algebraic charts. So where do I tell them to go when they’re stumped with their homework? To [...]
January 14, 2012 – 6:23 pm
As I Googled “Worst Mom Ever” hoping I don’t show up on page 1, I was filled with relief. Not only am I not named, but the honor goes to a woman named Lenore Skenazy. So I read to see what Lenore’s deal is, only to find – She’s MY NEW HERO! Lenore has coined the [...]
I thought we may have passed the stage where coloring Easter Eggs was a “Must Do”. But I thought wrong! The kids freaked at the suggestion of skipping the whole stinky mess. So we trooped out, bought the eggs and the Paas dye, and went to town. It was a classic afternoon, and [...]
Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, Reverent. I wish more people had that as their personal mission statement! The Boy Scouts do. I mean, its hard enough to try to live up to all those adjectives, but to be cheerful on top of it all? That’s seriously tough. The only thing [...]
It’s 80 degrees in the Chicago area and its still only April! This is tantamount to a national holiday. We’ve busted out the shorts and tees and everyone is outside enjoying the weather – well, almost everyone. I have the bevvy of sulky tween girls hanging here who are “bored” and “will maybe just watch a [...]
February 1, 2011 – 12:28 am
I may have been late to the game in hearing about the Tiger Mom. But no problem – I can jump to my own conclusions lighting fast! Besides being a terrible drag to grow up with or hang out with, Amy Chua (Tiger Mom) has one factor working for her – she’s a brilliant publicity [...]
October 7, 2010 – 10:54 pm
We don’t look like a likely trio, me and my kids, waiting in line in the parking lot for the arena doors to open to the pay-per view WWE matches. Maybe because we didn’t have tee shirts that said AWESOME, RAW, or Smackdown! Or maybe because we don’t have our own wrestling masks, cardboard signs, [...]
October 4, 2010 – 9:31 am
Even though I have been in the toy industry for years, I was reminded lately about the importance of play. According to the experts who have been studying child behavior for years, play is the primary way that kids learn how to socialize, imagine, create and think for themselves. Play also serves as a way [...]
September 15, 2010 – 12:11 am
When my tween daughter heard the radio ad, she was 100% sure they were talking directly to her. ” Want to be an Actress?” they asked. They claimed to have placed the actors in Drake and Josh, Hannah Montana, the Suite Life of Zack and Cody, and just about every other Nickelodeon and Disney show [...]
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