Posted in Challenges, Miscellaneous on May 3rd, 2012
Logan’s class field trip is tomorrow, and for some reason, he got it into his head that he’d really like me to go along. Sigh. I was happy to go if the class needed an extra set of hands to keep kids reasonably corralled, but Logan’s teacher assured me when I asked him yesterday that [...]
Posted in Challenges, Miscellaneous on Jan 17th, 2012
I’m not much of a nail biter myself. My bad habit as a kid was sucking my thumb, which I did every night until, at the ripe old age of 9, I became cognizant that it was very uncool and infantile to be sucking one’s thumb in order to get to sleep. I weaned myself [...]
Posted in Challenges, Miscellaneous on May 22nd, 2011
Screen Shutoff Day is not a new concept, but it’s one I’m going to be embracing starting the week of May 29. Initially, I wanted to take away the TV for the entire summer break and severely limit other screen time, such as computers, Leapsters and phones. Then I realized that to ban the kids [...]
