By Julie Burton of Bug Bytes I couldn’t sleep last night. There were monsters under my bed. Ok, that’s not true. They were in my phone. Fine. More like monsters in my head. And they weren’t monsters. They were people yelling at me. People named anonymous. These people read the New […]
By Michelle Riddell When you think about it, an elementary school is a microcosm of society. Nearly every facet of American culture is represented in the diverse assemblage of students, teachers, staff, and parents. And while schools like to emphasize their uniqueness and set themselves apart by, say, picking a […]
By Whitney Fleming of Playdates on Fridays At the beach this past summer, I saw two young teens snapping photos at the edge of the water. The pair giggled at first, trying to get just the right shot with the ocean in the background, catching the sun dancing off the […]
Would you let your kids play with saws, hammers, old tires, and building scraps, completely unsupervised and out of your immediate reach? That’s what many parents are doing at play:groundNYC on Governors Island in New York, as well as around the world, in increasingly popular kids’ parks known as adventure […]
By Joanna McClanahan of Ramblin’ Mama Andrea Grant of Jacksonville, Fla. was only 9 years old when she and her brother were injured in a gas explosion. Burns cover much of her body, including her abdomen. Because of the significant scarring, she was told she’d never be able to carry a […]
By Katie Wadland of EatSleepMomRepeat We went on our annual family trip to Maine this week, and it was the first trip we’ve taken that didn’t involve bringing a baby along. My girls are 5 and 2 ½ now, and there are some pretty awesome perks to traveling with big(ger) […]
By Kelly Bay of Beer and Junk, Adventures in Parenting We said goodbye to our first minivan this week. We purchased it a few months after finding out that we were pregnant with our youngest son. At the time we had a one-year-old, a three-year-old, a small, expensive Nissan Frontier and […]
By Jamie Finn of Foster the Family Let me paint a picture for you right now. It’s 2:45 on Friday afternoon. I’m sitting by myself in a Mexican restaurant with some nachos and a Sixpoint Resin (the greatest of all beers), waiting for my fish tacos. Not one person in […]