From the category archives:
An old friend of mine just sent a link around to this MotherStyles quiz and I found it really interesting. It’s a Myers-Briggs type quiz analyzing your mothering/parenting style. Turns out I’m an INTP mom, or a “Love of Learning” mom, who excels at calmness, and fostering independence and love of learning, but struggles with routine […]
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Being an only child requires patience. There’s a lot of explaining about not having siblings, and about whether that was “strange” and about how Disneyland might have been more fun with a sibling but if I’d had a sibling my parents couldn’t have afforded to take me to Disneyland. It requires listening to […]
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Happy Mother’s Day! Today, I’m up early and my guys are sleeping in, but that’s fine with me because I have a little time for myself.
My mother and I butted heads often when I was young, but becoming a mother myself, and moving to another country, just as she did, have really given me a lot […]
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While browsing in a bookstore back in the US last November, I came upon the book Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn. It sounded pretty interesting so I purchased it and pretty much devoured it. Before writing a review, I figured I better […]
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I recently came across a new-to-me parenting website, The Imperfect Parent, and I gotta wonder how I managed to get along without this site for so long. The contributors and readers accept and even bask in their imperfections, very different to the judgmental parents found at some of those other parenting websites.
What would you do if […]
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Now that my son is entering his toddler years, I wanted a book to turn to for help with discipline. I read through reviews of dozens of books and settled on three, Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Respon isible Children by Dr. Thomas Gordon was the first I read. The […]
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