My daughter is no longer my friend. She decided that it was weird being friends with her mom, so she dropped me.

March 1, 2008 * DRIVING ME MAD

My husband was the first to recognize that we’d entered the next stage of parenting.

December 10, 2006 •  MUSIC TO WHOSE EARS, EXACTLY?

Your ears may have had their fill of Christmas carols by now, but at our house, not even a holiday back-loaded with presents and parties can bend the will of a pre-teen music hound.

At the risk of raising the hackles of teachers and school administrators everywhere, I am going to side with my kids by admitting something that sounds childish, but with which I think most parents would agree:
I hate homework... 

October 8, 2006 • FINDERS KEEPERS
I think that I have just solved one of the longest running mysteries of motherhood... 

September 10, 2006 • EDUCATIONAL NECESSITIES
Are all of the families out there back in the school days’ swing of things? Are the kids’ backpacks already bulky, disfiguring humps; their lunchboxes malodorous?