Because sometimes being a parent means doing what’s hard.
Posted in discipline, family life, Mean Mom's Question Time on Mar 17th, 2011
This morning, I got to talking to a woman at my gym. Normally, I don’t talk much at the gym (too focused on getting in, working out, and getting out!), but as it happens we were hanging around waiting for a Zumba instructor who never showed up! (Grrr… does she not know that I only [...]
Posted in babies, kids and sleep, Mean Mom's Question Time on Mar 2nd, 2011
I don’t think it’s a huge leap to say that sleep — from your newborn’s earliest days to your teen’s freakish ability to sleep for what seems like days — is a major parenting issue. Can I get an amen on that? Amen. Thanks. I’ve always been … let’s call it “a stickler” or “tough” [...]
Posted in bullying, family life, Mean Mom's Question Time, parenting, school on Oct 4th, 2010
The story about the young man at Rutgers University who, after he found that a video of him having sex with a male partner had been live-streamed on the Internet, committed suicide, has me heartsick. I’m sick for him, for his family, for all the other teens unsure of how they fit in a world [...]
Posted in kids and friendship, Mean Mom's Question Time on May 17th, 2010
Just this weekend, I was talking to my sister, who had recently attended a mini-reunion of her high school class. She told me she talked to a girl who used to live around the corner from us, whose older brother, Charlie, was The Tormenter of the Bus Stop. (I recall that I actually mentioned our [...]
Posted in family life, kids' TV, Mean Mom's Question Time on May 4th, 2010
Starting this week (and hopefully continuing because it turns out to be wildly successful!), I’m instituting Mean Mom’s Question Time. Because I got to thinking: I can write (and write, and write, and write), but I’d rather discuss sometimes. So. Here’s the topic for Week One of Mean Mom’s Question Time: How much TV do [...]
