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Saturday, December 15, 2012

The Ugly Truth Behind Holiday Cards

The pictures may show the perfect kids, but sometimes they might not tell the whole story.

If you are a parent, chances are you know the real story behind all those adorable pictures of smiling kids plastered on the annual holiday cards. It’s the nitty-gritty, down and dirty true story that involves wardrobe malfunctions, hair debacles and all out meltdowns at the photo studio. It’s the fight with your kids about what color shirt they are going to wear or how they will refuse to let you curl, straighten or fix the rat nest on top of their head the morning of pictures. It’s the one where the moms are sweating bullets as they wait for their turn in front of the cameras, chasing toddlers, bouncing infants and carefully feeding Cheerios to bored kids, praying that nothing lands on the perfect holiday outfits you searched weeks for…

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Pumping Gas and Ignoring Texts - The Things our Kids Teach Us About Driving

We never know what we are teaching our kids until they show us, so I decided to not show them how to text and drive.

Having a teenage driver is a sign of the ultimate trust and fervent hope that all the lessons we consciously tried to teach our children growing up were received. Be safe, be smart and be responsible. Watching your child drive away for the first time is a mixture of relief for one less carpool, but also, for me at least, fighting off a wave of nostalgia as you remember where you two began. Now, it’s a common occurrence for my teen to jump in her car and go where to she needs to go, and rarely do I think twice about it anymore. But whenever I drive with her, I see her mimicking many of my own driving habits. Like her tendency to take her corners too tight and too fast—or giving directions to the drivers in front of us, like they can hear us…

In this Article:

'I Won't Text and Drive Because ...'—Tell Us Why and You Could Win

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