I don’t think any parent ever wants to be a helicopter parent. We’d like to think that when we have children, we assume we will be loving parents that will have well-behaved, well-rounded children who make small mistakes and, due to our love and encouragement, learn the lessons and never repeat the same mistakes again. We will trust our kids… View Post
Something has changed from my generation when it comes to raising children with respect. Back in the 70’s, 80’s, and definitely way before my time, our parents weren’t our friends. We had friends our own age–friends we played with outside, with whom we could cop attitudes, unfriend (back when “unfriending” was kicking out of the neighborhood hide-and-go-seek), and tell secrets to… View Post
Every day it’s clear that I need structure and organization in my life. Since I work from home it’s difficult to keep those lines perfectly drawn. Every time is work time. I get sucked into it. I love what I do! And because I love what I do, I want to work on it all the time. I’ve been getting up earlier… View Post
The kids just woke up a little bit ago on this Sunday morning, coming down to my basement office the way they do each morning, and instead of finding me deep in blogging-related stuff, they found me pouring over old posts from this blog. We scanned through pictures and old entries from the earlier years, while they laughed at stuff… View Post
While I consider myself to be eclectic in music tastes, I’ve never been a country music fan. Sure, there’s some blurry lines with some of the songs almost crossing over into pop, and I could listen to them, for sure. But I’d never say I was a Joey+Rory fan. In fact, I had never even heard of one song they’d… View Post
