Our family has been trying to snag a coveted cottage at Crystal Cove for over two years. Booking one of these historic homes turns out to be a mix of planning, persistence and dumb luck. Over the Christmas break we were able to stay at Cottage #19A with friends staying in two other cottages. Now […]
7 Pieces of Advice for Parents Going Through a Divorce
If you have gone through a divorce, you know how life-shattering the process can be. It’s not only for you; if you have kids, it can be equally devastating to them. Though I’m not a professional counselor, I do have the wisdom of someone who has come through a divorce and lived to tell about […]
FYI: iPhones don’t float
It was just a quick exchange. I was at a restaurant on the border of Nevada and California dropping off my kids with my parents, who live in the Silver State. They were taking them and my brother’s son for a week to do whatever grandparents do with their grandkids when their parents aren’t around. […]
Writing A Social Media Contract for Your Kids
Navigating your kid’s online and social media life can be overwhelming and often downright frustrating. For most of us we feel like we’re simply reacting to sticky, upsetting and sometime dangerous situations. In our defense this is all new to our generation of parents. We didn’t have anyone model to us how to teach our […]
“The Care and Keeping of You” book is best yet for young girls
It’s a fact–girls are starting to “develop” earlier. That’s what we called it in the late ’70s when my girlfriends and I were separated from the boys in our sixth grade class and shown an instructional film on menstruation. We were all given a packet of related goodies, like pads and tampons, and then sent […]
Magic Elves and Blended Families
*This article comes from my blog at the Homefront magazine. When my husband, Tim, and I married one year ago we’d thought, talked and read about the best way to go about “blending” our family: How we would discipline the kids; How we would divide up the chores; How we would show love to our […]
Happy Father’s Day to all the stepdads! It’s your day too!
With Father’s Day coming Sunday (don’t forget to buy bacon for breakfast), I would like to take this time to recognize the unsung heroes of fatherhood. The Mike Brady prototype. The stepdad. I got myself a brand-spankin’-new stepdad when I was 19 years old. My mom married Glenn just as I was taking my first […]
I’m not a dream killer, I swear
I’m not teaching my kids to follow their dreams. At least not right now. My kids are 13 and 10 years old, and what I’m teaching them are things like perseverance, the value of hard work, responsibility and charity. Those ideas aren’t splashed across T-Shirts in the juniors’ department of Macy’s, but they […]
Nine sports movies your kids may not have seen
We have a strict no PG-13 movies in our house prior to turing the big 1-3. (Read my column about that here.) Luckily there is no shortage of great movies that are appropriate for younger children. One genre we enjoy the most in our house is sports movies. These have a double dose of goodness […]
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