Recently, I’ve been reading quite a bit about cultivating talent in kids and the ins and outs of praising them for the things they do. Whoever thought it was so complicated? Or is it? “You’re the best!”, “You’re so smart!”, “OMG! You did that without even practicing!”, These are phrases we throw around like a kid loves throwing water balloons at her siblings. What does that do? The culprit Continue reading
I’m sure most of you are nervous about your tween or teen’s online habits. I’m sure most of you swore to yourself that you would not let your child run rampant online. I’m sure most of you never let your child use the public restroom on their own when they were 6, 7, 8, or even 9. Yet, I come across so many children at my kids’ school that are on Facebook in their mobile phones-not monitored. These are 9, 10, and 11 year olds! Did you say I am old fashioned and paranoid? Continue reading
How often do our emotions fluctuate from utter joy to complete pull my hair out anger when dealing with members of our close knit family? If you’re like me, it probably happens more often than you want it to. One minute we’re all, “you’re such a snuggy buggy cute macaroni” and 15 minutes later
we just want to swallow that little macaroni-and all for the wrong reasons. And 5 minutes after we’ve gone through the various scenarios of how we’ll chew out this little piece of…macaroni, gobble it up, and spit it out for the dog to do it’s do-das on it we’re riddled with pangs of guilt that scar us for the oh, rest of our lives. What can we do about this? How do we prevent Continue reading
I took this photo for a special project for the girl’s class. It was a very successful project. The kids were really great to photograph and the parents loved the photos. The look of pure satisfaction in the parents’ face when I show them the child’s photograph is simply priceless. I love being a photographer!
Borders is shutting down. Does not make me feel very good. I used to subscribe to their newsletters and they sent me hundreds of dollars of savings in coupons. Yeah, I know, despite all the rants and raves about Kindle this and Nook that, I’ve stuck with my good ol’ tree consuming paper books. Not that I’m technophobe or anything, I just love the feeling Continue reading
