by Meghan Carrigan, Guest MOMtor Responding to little annoyances and irritations as a mom … we all do it daily. Yet, as I sit down to write this post, I struggle to come up with at least one example of me not screwing it up royally. I have very little to offer in the successful…
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Let’s be honest. It’s not pretty. We’re not impressed with the first image that stares back at us in the morning. You know, the one the reflects all our imperfections in their make-up-free glory. We get the same feeling when we see behaviors in our children than reflect our own weaknesses. It is so incredibly…
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My son and husband live and breathe baseball. We live near both the Rays spring training facility and Tropicana Field. In other words: A baseball’s lover’s paradise. Micah: We’re going to the Rays/Tigers game this weekend, right, Dad? My husband: We’ve got tickets, but I’m going to be out of town, so we can’t go …….
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{Kathy} Mirta Calvo made all of us sit on tiny Pre-Kindergarten chairs. Our knees buckled in the air from being so big, but she was making a point: we are not four years old. She explained in her calm voice The Theory of Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner. Each time she described a different Intelligence, my…
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