My name is Carol and I am an enabler. That’s right. I do things for my kids who are now old enough that they could easily do most everything themselves. I am not proud of my actions including:
Driving my son and his friends to the mall– even though there’s a bus [...]
Baltimore, November 5, 2009 – A new Harris Poll Quorum survey, conducted for Sylvan Learning, reveals that more than six out of 10 adults do not feel comfortable helping a teenager with “advanced math” homework. 63 percent of adults said they would not feel comfortable helping a middle or high school student with advanced math [...]
I am going away for a long weekend with girlfriends. Hurray! I really need to drink get away.
My husband says, ” You need a vacation…from what?”
And I am reminded of that old joke.
You know, the one about the guy who comes home from work and finds his house in shambles, his kids playing naked in [...]
I love summer – it’s school vacation that I can’t stand. I’ve given up trying to have a television-free summer and asking Lewis to play outside. Right now, I am simply clinging to my sanity and counting the hours until school starts. Maybe you’re on the brink with me.
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It’s the 90 degrees out, but my kids are urging me to chill.
“Chill out, Mom” my son says when I ask where they are going and what time they’ll be home. “Chill out, Mom” means: ”I don’t want to tell you where I am going because you might not think that going to “The House of Pain” [...]
On the back of the Reese’s Puffs (Hershey’s Cocoa and Reese’s Peanut Butter Sweet & Crunchy Corn Puffs) cereal box is a list of 18 things to do before you are 18. Maybe, because I have already showed a lack of good parental judgment by purchasing Reese’s Puffs for my child’s breakfast, General Mills assumes [...]
I love my neighborhood. Yesterday, Buddhists from the meditation center at the end of the street walked by in red robes and blessed my dog with a prayer wheel.
But it’s not just the Buddhists who make the street interesting. We’ve also got a doll maker, a childrens’ entertainer, an inventor and a former prima ballerina. [...]
It was the night before Lewis left for two weeks at summer camp. Using the packing list that the camp had provided, he was checking off items as he stashed them in his big plastic footlocker. He had four bathing suits, twelve pairs of underwear a new package of socks, a rain poncho, a polar [...]
Today is the first day of summer vacation. Hurray! I envision a two whole months of playing outside, swimming, bike riding, eating peanut butter sandwiches on a blanket in the backyard and lucrative lemonade stands. Of course, that’s for me.
My kid is in the basement playing XBox 360.
Okay, it’s raining. So, I’ll let him grow [...]
