Bullying sucks. With more and more cases of bullying making headlines every single day, trying to explain it to little kids isn’t easy, but it sure seems necessary. And yes, all kids know that there’s good guys and bad guys in the world, but how do you get them to wrap their minds around the idea that there are people… Read more →
Monthly Archives: October 2011
How the Blind-Eye Effect is impacting our children. No, it’s not good.
I’m kind of an ad nerd, and love theLiberty Mutual spots where people help each other and it causes a beautiful, random-acts-of-kindness-type of butterfly effect. My parents and grandparents raised me to be a Good Samaritan from a young age – holding doors for a mom struggling with a stroller, offering to shovel an elderly neighbor’s driveway, showing the new kid… Read more →
Special Needs Kids Don’t Have Cooties. Just so you know.
Turns out special needs as contagious cooties and glittery unicorn farts that smell like sprinkles and sunshine have a lot in common. Namely that both are kind of beautiful, and neither is dangerous. That’s right, folks. Special needs are not contagious. Gasp! That it needs pointing out however, gives me the sad panda of sob. Yesterday, I posted Do Prettier… Read more →
Special needs are scary. Or at least that’s the vibe I’m getting.
There’s a white hair in my eyebrow. Heavy sigh. I suppose it matches the other ones I’ve found setting up camp on my head. At this rate, I’m going to end up looking professorial and distinguished (doubtful), or like a sad panda (entirely possible). Either way, the parents at the bus stop will be my captive audience. As it stands, I’m already… Read more →
Don’t poke the mama bear. Unless you like having no face.
A mother’s instinct to protect her babies is like a sleepy Grizzly bear with sharp teeth. Poke it and you’re screwed because the hulking cranky wrapped in growls is about to take off your face. The realization that I can’t shield my children from the pokers of the world has been a bittersweet one. Because once that inner Mama Bear… Read more →
Dogs are slobbery happy wrapped in furry awesome. So how do you choose the one that’s right for your family?
Dogs don’t lie about love. Anyone who has a cold-nosed companion will agree. Their joy is boundless, their devotion absolute, and their free smells easy to ignore when compared to the slobbery happy wrapped in furry awesome they bring to anyone who wants some. And I so want some for William. Because he’s kind of alone in the world. Sure… Read more →
Thou shalt not make stupid things up. Also, why Jesus will always be my homeboy.
Whoever said “God doesn’t give us more than we can handle” is full of something and it isn’t prayer. Turns out that particular saying isn’t even in the Bible. Honest. The Lord never said it, his disciples never wrote it down, and it was never part of the greatest story ever told. Don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against… Read more →
The Octopus and the TARDIS: A Love Story
A madman with a box. A mom with a mission. Either way, perseverance is ingrained. Read more →
The New Normal: A Birth Story
16 hours and Jean Claude Van Damme were just the beginning. Read more →
