Tag Archive: parenting

from cereal box to serial comma: how Oprah killed my writer’s dreams

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The Erma Bombeck Writer’s Workshop is coming up in April, and there are four scholarships available for writers who win their writing contest. I’d really like attend the workshop, so I set aside my fear of writing contests and entered this one, my first judged submission in three years. Linking it up with lovelinks, my…

lies, damn lies and the children who tell them

One at a time, my children are trying to either kill me or get themselves dropped off at the nearest fire station. In response to getting caught in a whopper of a lie after a series of smaller lies, Jon Alex tried the “I’m a fragile butterfly surrounded by vicious hound dogs, except for you,…

avoiding conflict and veggies since 1985

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I seriously do not think I’m cut out for this parenting gig. I’m too lenient, I’m unstructured, there is way too much doing of your own thing around here. Nobody has to sit at the table until they finish their veggies. Nobody has to sit at the table, period. Whatever everyone does to keep the…

lovelinks #21 winner: @amountainmomma

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Theresa from Mountain Momma!

lovelinks #16 winner: @troublesometots

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Alexis of Troublesome Tots!

People who go around saying “the r-word” like they are avoiding the word “rigger” are a little ridiculous, but the word “retarded” still hurts

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mean people suck

how the stick in the mud got its groove back

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A manifesto of sorts. Leave me alone.