A Rule is to Break: A Child’s Guide to Anarchy
Are you busy raising a little anarchist? Then you’re gonna looooove A Rule Is To Break: A Child’s Guide to Anarchy.
9 tips for enjoying a family road trip
We just finished most of the holiday season, so some of you may have survived your latest family road trip barely intact. It’s summer in Australia, so plenty of us are gearing up for another trip soon — and if you’re getting ready for road tripping with your smalls, I’ve got some ideas to keep them occupied. I’ve had my fair share of road tripping with kids — with or without my partner Matt — it can be tricky. But over the years I’ve figured out what works and what doesn’t, and what’s absolutely imperative.
A high school English teacher on 5 books every teen should read
The Huffington Post ran a piece last month about the five books every high school student should read before going to college. It was a pretty good list, and I agree that most of those books are incredibly important for teenagers, but I couldn’t help but think, if I had five books to give my students that they HAD to read, what would they be?
A happy and healthy birth center story
Only 10 minutes after talking to her, contractions started coming quickly and more sporadically and I began to get nauseous at their height — even in my state I knew it was a sign of transition. Even though I never got the classic “I can’t do this” mindset, I suddenly felt out of control — more of a “I have no idea what the hell I’m doing” mindset. I only had to say it once and Ryan knew it was time to leave.
The agony of sleeping together when you have insomnia (and my Ozzie and Harriet solution)
I’m an insomniac. The kind where I’ve occasionally laid in bed actually crying because I want to sleep so, so badly. And now I have a fiance. Being an insomniac is bad enough. Being an insomniac in love with a good sleeper is its own special kind of torture. But I might have come up with a solution…
I’m trying to conceive and feel like it might not happen
The road taken when trying to become a parent is already long enough. You weigh this and that — a new house or a child? My wedding or the birth of someone greater than a piece of paper from the state? Cloth or disposable diapers, when should I start stocking up on either? And then there’s fertility: even if everything checks out fine, you still have a 20% chance of conceiving a child each month.
We live in a one bedroom apartment and we’re about to have twins: help?!
We are very excited to find out that our little bundle of joy is in fact two! But now that I’m into my second trimester I’m finally over the morning sickness long enough to think about how this is all going to work. We live in a one bedroom condo, and I’m not sure how to make it work with two babies.
Many miles separate our family: life after your kids move out
My son and two daughters have grown up to be delightful young adults, funny, thoughtful, affectionate. We have great times together. Problem is, we just don’t see each other all that often.