by Melody | Apr 26, 2023 | Parenting, Story Time
This post was made to facebook on April 26, 2020, and moved here for posterity. Our children have been spending quite a bit of time indoors due to COVID. Because of this, whenever we get the chance to shoo them outside, we do so. The weather yesterday was warm and the...
by Melody | Apr 19, 2023 | Parenting
While scrolling through TikTok the other day I ran across a series of short videos stitched together of people responding to the phrase, “The person you are right now is the person you would have felt safe with as a child.” I watched as several individuals reacted...
by Melody | Dec 15, 2022 | Parenting
“Mom, is Santa Claus real?” My son was standing in the kitchen in his Spiderman slippers and robe holding a Snorlax plushie. We had just gotten done decorating our Christmas tree while watching the Polar Express, a quintessential movie for little boys and girls who...
by Melody | Oct 21, 2022 | Parenting
The other day my daughter came to me in tears. Her little brother had hit her in the head with a rock because she didn’t wait for him to finish getting his shoes on when it was time to leave for the school bus. She left him behind, which made him feel sad, and because...
by Melody | Oct 12, 2022 | Parenting
No child needs to be taught how to break rules. They do that all on their own with great enthusiasm. The hard part seems to be getting you little munchkins to follow any rules at all. When you read this you might get confused. I’ve put a lot of time and energy...
by Melody | Oct 12, 2022 | Parenting
No, I’m not going to tell you that you can do anything you set your mind to, or that you can be anything you want. The truth is that I don’t know if you can or not. And I never want to lie to you, even if I’m trying to be encouraging. You may, indeed, be so fortunate...
