In the past week, a couple things have happened in my world. First, we learned that our 5 1/2-year-old needs a nap after school. Luckily, it only took us two days to realize what was going on. Unluckily, we haven’t figured out how to make it really work yet, so sometimes it happens, and sometimes…it…
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Stained Glass, A Strong-Willed Breakthrough, and Learning to ride a bike in a week (theoretically)
It’s been a pretty intense week, with Julianna in iCanBike camp in a nearby town. I’ve had to pull her and Nicholas from school early every day so we could make the half-hour drive to the camp. They begin with this gizmo, which is sort of barrel-shaped, so it’s narrower and less stable than training…
Read MoreThe great god, “Screen Time”
My kids are such jerks after they’ve had screen time. It’s so weird. They get up from that favorite time and they’re whiny, uncooperative, quarrelsome, and generally not fun to be around. I told my mom about this, and she said, “That’s why I stopped letting you girls watch Saturday morning cartoons, you know.” I…
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Kathleen M. Basi 