The ‘pants on the ground’ thing is getting old people! Enough already. I just hate it, and I swear every season they just keep getting lower. How did this even become a fashion thing?
Outside Influences
When your children are little, their whole world revolves around you. You are the most important thing in their lives, the source of food, comfort and survival. As they grow of course, this changes. At 3 they want to be independent and everything is no and I can do it. By 5 they’re off to school and they turn to …
Here’s the Thing About Kids and Drinking.
It’s not a new problem, teens and drinking. I would imagine it’s been going on since the beginning of time….. The minute someone found out that you could get a buzz from fermented fruit, Ug and Glok, the teenage cave dwellers, were hiding around behind the bush, sneaking the elders’ fermented googleberries 🙂
Facebook Sucks
Remember life before social media? Before we put everything up on facebook and twitter? When we had a big night out and nobody had a cell phone camera to post immediately to the world how badly we behave when we think we’re having fun? Yeah me too.
A Glimpse into the Future….. ?
I may or may not have just experienced my first pre-teen tantrum. It was messy, there were tears. He was pretty upset too 🙂 . I’m not sure I handled it well to begin with, the frustration went straight to 11. I think it was shock but in the end I just let it go. He had to collect himself, …
Tweens
Moving into the tween almost teen years is really testing my resolve. I am going to have to hit the books to solve these problems. I’ve got the sleeping, tantrum little kid thing down but this age is all new to me and it’s hard. I battled for an hour this morning with Grand Master D who insisted he was …