Miss Gremlin is 11 on Sunday, the ides of March (Shakespeare apparently) and it doesn’t feel like that long ago she was pigtails and curls.
This Free Range Parenting Thing
It made the news here a few weeks ago about a family whose children aged 10 and 6 were reported to police as being alone.
Exams, They Start Them Early in NYC
This weekend Miss Gremlin attended the admissions tests for the schools she’s applying for. The first one, which she really wants was a 3 hour exam which she sat for in Columbia University. She, along with 250 other children, took their test in an actual college lecture hall!
Middle School or Bust
We finally finished the middle school application process here that I have written about a bit over on my facebook page (I’m there a lot, it’s the instant gratification thing 🙂 )
How to Teach Kids not to Half Ass Everything
We’ve headed into new territory with the kid raising thing. How do you teach work ethic and how do you teach them to complete a given task.
Commuting Kids-Sometimes they have a Fail
When you put your kid on a train, all sorts of feelings happen. Fear, panic, paranoia… none of the good one’s naturally.
And then, just like that.. He graduated
School, that place where children go for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for not enough weeks of the year as some would argue, to learn.
The Highest of Highs and the Lowest of Lows- It’s a Lesson we all Learn
Last nights performance at Jazz At Lincoln Centre was awesome! Miss Gremlin rocked the place along with 90 other kids from 8 local schools who utilise the program of Midori and Friends.
I Live with Piglets- Which you’d think would be fun… it’s not
The alarm goes off, I tap my wrist until it shushes. Next thing I know the bathroom door is closing and Grand Master D is stepping in the shower.
Why We Should Teach Our Sons to Sew: When Women Raise Boys-Guest Post
I’d like to introduce a new friend today, Fiona from Coffee is Black. She writes about all sorts of crazy life stuff and was just starting to enjoy posting to the Hump Day Hook Up when I shut it down, so I wanted to share her work with you. Please enjoy and go over and take a look at her …