The post below was written by fellow parenting blogger, Daniel Sherwin, of DadSolo.com. You want your kids to lead healthy, active lives, but it can be hard getting them to engage when computer games and cell phones have their attention. Help them practice good health habits...
“How do other people do this?” my husband Cory asked the ceiling, with his palms in his eyes. It's the morning after. We were up late. If you were to peek in our window at 9:45 p.m. any given night, you'd see a wild-haired naked three-year-old jumping...
Henry's in T-ball and we are experiencing Glens Falls Little League for the first time ever. I've lived in this city for something like ten years now and I had no idea that this big underground party was going on without us. Did you know that all...
I'm a fan of New Year's Resolutions. I figure January's as good a time as any to set some goals, and to check in on last year's to see exactly how far I am from being a perfect human being. Here's my plan for 2016. 1....
Today was Henry's first day with a new teacher in charge of his classroom. His former teacher Marissa moved to California. He knew his new teacher very well, but it was still a change. I don't know if that affected him at all or if...
I envy the calm, lilting tone I hear some mothers use. “No thank you!” they recite, gently guiding their child away from climbing the radiator around the perimeter of the children's room at the library that all kids gravitate toward. “We'll get them at the patch...
Born in 1982, I'm on the cusp between Generation X and the Milliennials, which TIME Magazine recently called the “Me Me Me” generation of lazy, entitled narcissists. Raised by hippies, I did grow up in the era of Mr. Rogers, talking about my feelings. I knew...