Posts Tagged: mom humor

The Spiritual Balm of the Dollar Theater and Justin Timberlake

posted on 01/22/2017

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Note: this post started as a status update on my personal Facebook page, but I decided to share it here as well. I mean, it’s 800 words long. There has to be something worth sharing in there, right? May you find your “JT Moment” this week, too. 🙂 ******* I am supposed to be writing […]

All I Really Needed to Know ABOUT Kindergarten

posted on 08/27/2016

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(One Working Mom’s Perspective) Yeah. This post pretty much makes me the anti-Robert Fulghum. But here goes. A few weeks ago, some friends of mine, with their first kids starting Kindergarten this month, asked me and another “veteran” elementary school mom what they should expect from their little ones’ first foray into big kid school. The other […]

Raising Feminist Boys: Maybe I’m Doing it Wrong

posted on 01/15/2016

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So I was in the car after picking up both boys from school the other day, and we had this conversation: Fozzie (age 4): When I grow up, I’m going to build a laser gate. Me: Awesome, buddy. Like the ones on Star Wars? Skywalker (age 6): Like the ones where they kept Obi-Wan prisoner, […]