Dear Kerry, I feel like such a bad mom! I wanted these kids. I love these kids. And still, I end up yelling at them and I feel so bad. I hate how mean I can be when I get frustrated. How do I stop? From Bad Mom Dear Bad Mom, …
While on vacation recently at the beach, a family of five found themselves having a less than ideal time together. Lying on the beach and doing absolutely NOTHING sounded perfect for the over-worked parents, but the two older boys, James and Liam, wanted ACTION and their little sister Mattie wanted to join in the fun. …
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A dad I work with had to take his three young sons to a long, boring meeting in an attorney’s office. He was sweating it because his boys were likely to act up. To inspire them to great behavior, he offered the reward of “Candy for dinner and movies till you fall asleep!” Now THAT …
I am standing in the kitchen getting breakfast ready for my family… Palmer (6) is banging on the counter with an action figure while he asks for a drink. Landon (2) is playing on the floor at my feet with his new and very noisy digger, saying “Play, mommy!” Keaton (9) is downstairs hollering at …
Imagine this: you’re sitting in a restaurant and when the waitress asks for your friend’s order, your friend goes through the whole menu of what she DOESN’T want… “I don’t want the burrito and I don’t want the tacos and I don’t want the chimichanga.” How likely is she to end up getting what she …
Bless my kids and their cranky days. If my 3 boys were perfect and delightful all the time, I’d have no credibility as a parenting instructor. Lucky for me, I don’t have that problem! Just the other morning, I was tempted to yell. I came right to the brink when two of them were participating …
Here are some ideas to manage the sibling bickering that can wear us down during long summer days. Bicker Jar When my kids bicker, they each have to draw a slip of paper from the “Bicker Jar.” The slips have various forms of distraction written on them, from chores (you should see how clean my …
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