Tag Archive 'personality'

Reader question: Bashful child

Hi Sarah, I am a day care provider for just one child. She is an only child and spends the majority of the day with me, an adult. I recently took her to a library reading with other kids and she even knew a couple of them. She would not interact with the kids. She [...]

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It takes all kinds

Anyone else have a mother hen in the brood? I’ve got two. One for each pair of sexes. Andie has always spoken for and mothered Rachel, and Cody tries to boss Logan around, who usually refuses to let him. Just the other day, I watched in disbelief when I was telling Logan not to do something [...]

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The first game

I realized on the way to my twin girls’ very first basketball game this fall that I was clutch-the-steering-wheel-as-your-knuckles-turn-white nervous. Never mind that they’re only in fourth grade or that I, myself, am about as athletically inclined as a napkin (though come to think of it, perhaps that’s why I was so nervous). What if [...]

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