Posted in Miscellaneous on Apr 12th, 2010
My tweens are already daydreaming about being able to sleep-in during their summer vacation. This, of course, led to a discussion over how late they’d be able to stay up once school is finished. “I think we should be able to stay up until at least 11:00,” Andie emphatically told me. I stared at her. [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jan 21st, 2010
Does anyone else have a child whose brain is so active that it just won’t turn off at night? Or maybe you also have this problem yourself, as I do. I haven’t found a solution for myself yet though, let alone for my 7-year-old, who reminds me very much of me as a child in [...]
Posted in Discussion of the day, Miscellaneous on May 11th, 2009
Most of my kids are bleary-eyed and grumpy in the morning and on school mornings, I almost always have to drag the boys out of their beds. It’s not a very pleasant job, especially when my natural state in the morning is not exactly conducive to rising with the sun either. By the time school [...]
