How do you know when your child is ready for the next level of sport? What is the next level anyway? Is it the right move for your child? I will draw on my personal experience and my conversations, with…
Category: Preteens and Tweens
Back-to-School Giveaways from MomCentral
Back-to-School makes me think of different images from the different times in my life. MomCentral is offering a Gift Guide to help you with your back-to-school needs. For me back-to-school means trying to figure out which school I was in at…
Musings on Calming the Savage Kindergartener
Another of my “I left a long-winded comment on someone’s blog post so I may as well turn it into a blog post.” Yep, it’s a copout, but at least I get a post out of it. Does your kindergartener comes…
Ode to the Afterschool Schedule
Schedules, hectic, racing out the door No time for dinner Grab a Pop Tart and let’s gooooo CLEATS! Where are your cleats? What do you mean you can only find one? No goggles — can you swim without? It’s just…
Disney with Kids
We have travelled to Disney twice: once with a 5-year-old and a 3-year-old plus 2 nonenergetic grandparents AND a second time with a 10-year-old, an 8-year-old, and a 3-year-old. Disney is magical. I posted here about doing a Disney trip…
Musings on Middle School
I’ll have 2 middle school girls as of Monday. I hope I live to tell the tale! I have a 6th grader and an 8th grader. Pray for me. I sat through the middle school orientation today. I’ve done this before…
Back-to-School with Peter Walsh
It’s that time of year again. Time to get kids ready to go back to school. Time to clear out last year’s backpack of papers and binders in time for this year’s papers and binders. I’ll let you in to…
Review & Giveaway: Trix Swirls Are Definitely for Kids!
The new box of Trix Swirls® was on the pantry shelf for a nano second before the preteen found it. She has a nose for the sweet things. I implored her to please save some for her older sister and younger brother.…
Should Little Kids Use Mommy’s iphone?
I’ll state at the outset that I have issues with little kids using grownup devices — cell phones, ipods, iphones, Blackberries. Perhaps my children at 6, 10, and 13 were born too late to have had the opportunity to play…
Review: Parentsconnect.com
Have you checked out ParentsConnect.com from Nickelodeon? As a parent of a kid, a preteen, and a teen, I found lots to interest me. Message boards. Tips. Advice from other moms and dads. Expert advice. To get the best out of www.parentsconnect.com,…
