Sep 2, 2012 | Parenting
When my oldest child was a sophomore in high school he dropped a big bomb on me. He asked to stop taking Spanish class and instead take . . . guitar. I’d always planned on my children being bilingual. You may think this would be a good time to point out that that...
Jul 29, 2012 | Parenting
Last year my oldest child left for college, which happened about 24 hours after he was born. Or at least that’s how it felt to me. I can look back and think of a few things that I regret as his mom, nothing too serious, just a thing or two that I might change. I...
Jul 23, 2012 | Parenting
This is the year that my daughter begins high school. I’m trying very hard not to be fearful or dread it yet I can’t help but remember the hell that I gave my mother and her promise that she’s going to laugh when I have my own teen-aged daughter. Throw in my...
Jul 11, 2012 | Parenting
My 14-year-old daughter breaks my heart every summer as she joyfully hops on her camp bus to her so called “home away from home”. She leaves this Sunday so I asked her if she’d write my July blog for me. I didn’t tell her what she could or should write about and this...
Jun 12, 2012 | Parenting
I’m sure it started earlier than this but I began to notice it when I was pregnant with my first child. “You shouldn’t drink wine, or eat peanut butter or shell fish. Don’t gain more than 30 pounds (which I misunderstood to mean per month vs. the whole pregnancy).” ...
May 30, 2012 | Parenting
Sometimes it is damn hard to be happy for others! My daughter has a friend from dance who will say to her mother, “Suzy is better at ballet than I am” and the mother responds, “Yes, but you are better at hip hop than Suzy is.” Although I often found...
