Strangely enough, I don’t think my kids have ever seen Dumbo.  At this point, I think it is a good thing.  Since I had to take a parenting tip from the movie, I think I will try to keep the kids away from it for a while. Z, being the deep thinker that he is, [...]

Today I am really hoping to put an end to the drama of the summer.  Poor little K had to have tubes in her ears.  I know that this is a fairly routine procedure that many many children have, but when it was my child, honestly, it was just awful. She was upset from the [...]

I have a lot of friends whose children started kindergarten this year.  Most of them started weeks ago.  Many of them posted facebook statuses about how hard it was to let them go.  I empathized with them, and took a minute to think about my own baby boy going to kindergarten.  Then the weeks dragged [...]