One of my biggest fears as a parent is that my kids will hide things from me. As a teenager, I felt like my parents were so wrapped up in their own lives that they just didn’t have time to learn anything about mine. I lied to my parents all the time, about where I [Read On]
Oxiclean, because kids are MESSY
October 19, 2007 By
I’ve been using Oxiclean since practically the first time I saw the commercial, with Billy Mays yelling about how it gets stains out and makes whites whiter. I was skeptical at first, because of a bad experience with “Brand Name Laundry Detergent” Plus Bleach, which left white bleach spots in some of our dark clothes. [Read On]
PBN Book review-Deceptively Delicious
October 10, 2007 By
Although my kids probably don’t eat a wide enough variety of vegetables, we serve a veggie every night for dinner. Our standards are steamed frozen green peas or green beans, steamed carrots, or canned corn. Occasionally I steam broccoli, but not often. My boys have never eaten beets, or squash, and neither has eaten a [Read On]
Printakid-cool Personalized stories for children
September 20, 2007 By
When I was in elementary school, my favorite book was a personalized story about “my” trip to the zoo. In the story, the little girl who looked like me and had my name went to the zoo with her family, and if I remember correctly, either met a giraffe or possibly rode on one, I [Read On]
So far, my Kids (don’t) Love Spanish
September 13, 2007 By
I took French in seventh and eighth grade, and I learned it quickly and easily. When I went to college and learned that Freshmen were required to take a foreign language, I thought I would try Spanish, so I enrolled in the Beginning Spanish class. Who else was in Beginning Spanish? People who had taken [Read On]
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