Dear Me, Just to put your mind at ease, you do a really, really good job teaching your children the important things, like appreciation for old movies, how to floss and the importance of God in their lives. You kind of fall down on the keeping-up-with-current-events thing. Last Thanksgiving the boys fell to talking about …
Category Archive: Kids
May
12
2011
May
09
2011
Dear Me, About Graduation Torture
Dear Me, My emotions have been deliberately and shamelessly manipulated by the children’s choir teacher (who happens to be a personal friend of mine, so I can’t yell at her without consequences). Every year about this time the 200 kids that make up the different high school choirs put on this really great program they …
Apr
29
2011
Dear Me, About Releasing Kids into the Wild…
“Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” – Robert A. Heinlein Dear Me, So I’m talking to our sister today and she’s telling me that she is probably going to have to take her kids out of private Christian school and put them into public because they can’t really afford the steep tuition …
Apr
21
2011
Dear Me, About Letting Go…
“Children are cuddly to hold, and painful to let go.” – Arthur Tugman Dear me, Someday you will really, really love making to-do lists. I know this sounds crazy to you right now; your mom always had piles of to-do lists so you equate them with oppression and anal retention. As it turns out …
Apr
19
2011
Dear Me, About Punishing a Child’s Mistake…
“A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Dear Me, A dear friend just told me a funny story. Her six and four year old boys came upstairs – all proud, mind you – to show her the results of their new game: barber shop. With the help of his older brother …
Apr
18
2011
Dear Me, About Getting the Kids Through School…
“Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.” – Robert Brault Dear Me, So, you were mostly a latch-key kid. Even when you weren’t, no one was checking up on your grades. Thus you were the classic …
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