Many weeks ago, I promised to write a post on potty training. You guys should know by now that I never do anything on time, so hopefully you weren't holding your breath. Anyway, yesterday I got this message on my Facebook page: I have a 27-month-old boy that I am potty training, and when I [...]
World’s Worst Moms’ Guide to a Successful Sleepover
May 8, 2013 – Posted in: Kid Friends, No Good Deed, Parenting, Solicited Advice, Things To Do with Kids, This Is Supposed to be Fun, Worst Mom RandomnessLast weekend, the kids each had a sleepover. Unfortunately, I couldn't manage to schedule them both on the same night, so it kind of felt like an elementary school B&B here (except for the part where I drag my ass out of bed and cook everyone breakfast). Anyway, my buddy, Cheryl, who's much more experienced [...]
Bullying Update — Mom Fights Back!
April 19, 2013 – Posted in: Bullying, Mean People, Parenting, Solicited Advice, Worst Mom RantsThought everybody would be anxious to hear the update from my friend whose son experienced the horrible bullying/sexual assault incident at his school. Thanks to everybody who wrote and gave such thoughtful advice. ******** Here is the follow-up, and please let your readers know how much I appreciate their input and support. This isn't quite [...]
A Case of Bullying: Boy on Boy Sexual Assault
April 18, 2013 – Posted in: Bullying, Mean People, Parenting, Solicited Advice, Worst Mom RantsSo I woke up to an email that made my blood boil this morning. A friend sent me this: I'm only sharing this with you because we are pretty similar in a lot of ways, and I think you'll get my sheer outrage. My son has been the victim of sexual assault, harrassment and bullying [...]
Helping Your Kid Out of Autism — The Preschool Post
March 25, 2013 – Posted in: Autism -- The Handbook, Autism Recovery, Newt, Newt's Story, Parenting, Personal Insanity, School, Solicited Advice, WorryingMore tales from the autism front. Today's questions come from the mother of "Tara," a 3-and-a-half year old who was just diagnosed. Keep in mind that I've never met these people, so I'm basically just relaying what we did in these same situations. Our son, Newt, was diagnosed with high-functioning autism at the same age and [...]
The Things We do for Love — My New Cleaning Gig at the Allergy House
August 29, 2012 – Posted in: Elfie, Jasper, Solicited Advice, This Is Supposed to be Fun, Worst Mom RandomnessSo Elfie has been sneezing her bloody head off for the last few weeks. I'm a terrible mother so I haven't really been paying a ton of attention to it, except the few times she's been on her way out and I've noticed that she's had snot crusted under her nose. But recently it's gotten [...]
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