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A Conversation with an Exceptional Mother About Her Exceptional Daughter
Well, I’ve had a fun couple of weeks! I was about to publish the post here, until my website decided to misbehave, which you may have noticed if you tried to check in recently and got one of those...
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Suburban Mom Seeks Friends. For Her Kid.
My little cowboy: Who wouldn’t want to be his friend? We moved from the city to our suburban home 11 years ago this October. Our son Daniel was about to turn one. My husband had just started a new job...
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Are We Ready to Ditch Rules for Recess?
Are we willing to ditch rules for school playgrounds? During his school recess, back when he was in the third grade, my older son invented a game in which he was the proprietor of a store, prompted by...
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Why I’m Sorry Summer’s Ending, For the First Time in a Long Time.
READERS! Hi there. It’s me, Denise. Been a while, right? I’d say let me ‘splain, but to quote Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride, “no, is too much. Let me sum up”: I’ve been stuck in a cycle of...
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Get ‘Em Outside… But How?
Who’s out there anymore? We talk a very good game, don’t we, about how our kids need to be outside and moving, rather than indoors and glued to their screens. But how easy is it to say, “go outside!”...
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Dinner Isn’t “Tyranny.” It’s Just Dinner
Dinner is served! Both of my grandmothers were good cooks. Neither ever got to anything like a gourmet level, of course, but they had a whole lot of family-pleasing dishes down cold, particularly my...
View ArticleMy Kids Don’t Have Much Homework. But Even That Much is Too Much
Remember when everyone was talking about the over-scheduled child? I remember thinking: I wasn’t going to have those kind of kids, no way. I wasn’t going to be one of those moms, with a “Mom’sTaxi” key...
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Why Jennifer Garner Shows Up On My Christmas List
James, my 10-year-old, wrote my off-the-cuff list with some creative spelling and a lot of laughter. Here’s my Christmas problem. I love it, never fear that I’m about to be curmudgeonly about the...
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Do You Have a Tribe?
Do you have a tribe? Back in October of last year, I got a group email that read: You know the one time of year that I am remotely sappy, is Zoe’s birthday. I decided to write her a letter this year. I...
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Yes, I Have ‘Resting B*#ch Face’ And So Does My Kid. What’s It To You?
Oh, here we go. The New York Times Style section has identified yet another trend-you-love-to-hate, and it’s the so-called “resting bitch face,” or the way some of us (in the case of the article,...
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