Tag: parenting
member name: anna g. vanwinkle
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March 06, 2007 11:36 AM EST --
(I wrote this song driving home from the morning school run. If you can imagine, without the music, a coffee house song on Sirius 30? it sounds like one of those. I played it for the boy . . .
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March 23, 2007 12:10 PM EDT --
"Mom, what crowd were you in when you were in 7th grade? the popular kids or the invisibles?"
"What do you mean by invisibles?"
"You know the kids no one notices like me." . . .
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November 01, 2008 09:51 PM EDT --
We live in a small rather quiet town, a bedroom community nicely tucked away from the crime and drug infested Capital of our state.
The most excitement me and my merry band of lady hoods . . .
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May 18, 2006 09:06 AM EDT --
Spanking Vs. Tough Love
I've always found that parent's are equally divided on this topic. Do we spank our children and make our point clearly and quick - or do we take the route . . .
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May 25, 2006 10:19 AM EDT --
(I must apologize to the grumpy wakers. I wake up excited, already talking and if not muzzled or given dirty looks I will sing random crazy songs that fit the day. Coffee not needed for any of this.)
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February 24, 2006 07:10 PM EST --
Why I'm refusing to raise a child.
I think sometimes our verbage turns around and bites us in the backside. Or it kicks us in the collective hiney.
Or it costs us five times as much as . . .
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June 11, 2006 12:05 AM EDT --
This week I was in a store and caught off guard by a mother and her about 8 year old daughter in the midst of a public display of fit throwing and abuse.
The child cried and rubbed her . . .
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February 18, 2006 11:36 AM EST --
This week I said good-bye to the innocence of my 11 year old son due to media invoked wear and tear on childhood and one rougue child who pushed the envelope. I'll admit, I lost a few tears this week. . . .
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February 19, 2006 12:25 PM EST --
Yesterday we went to the grocery store. Hey, wait - - I know this is boring but hang in there.
My son's been growing. He's eating everything in sight. Last week he started and finished off two . . .
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April 26, 2006 01:23 AM EDT --
I'm So Connected It Almost Makes Me Sick: Part II: Lora's Trip to the Shelter on 4.25.06: 26 Cat Rescues and the Surprising Turn of Events that Followed:
This is the follow up story to . . .
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May 16, 2006 10:58 PM EDT --
My son wasn't feeling well a few days ago. He brought his blanket to the sofa and crawled into my lap like he's always done.
It must have been a while since we did this last. He elbowed in, wriggled, . . .
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May 17, 2006 12:00 AM EDT --
"Mom, I found an egg!!! Come look."
Inside his hand was a speckled birds egg, a chunk of shell missing from one side.
"What are we going to do with it? Can we Hatch it?" . . .
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April 08, 2006 09:24 PM EDT --
Today, I missed a parent moment. My son broke his first board in Tae Kwon Do and tested for his yellow belt. I wasn't there to see it. I wasn't there to beam. Help . . .
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January 18, 2007 08:59 PM EST --
It was the best of times, it was the...oh. Wrong story. Let me start again.
This is a story of how Princess Tootie came to be at our house. Or? How my husband nearly . . .
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November 15, 2007 12:08 PM EST --
I was in Home Depot this morning - and not on a mission to find anything in particular.
I'd driven my son Bryan to school, and remembered somewhere in the back of my head I needed 'things' . . .
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February 02, 2006 07:55 PM EST --
There are things that randomly float in through the day that aren't big enough to publish. Just West of Dirtville will be the catch-all for those special moments I don't want to forget.
Entry . . .
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February 05, 2006 01:33 PM EST --
Dear Mandi,
My mother grew up hungry and poor on a cotton farm in the middle of podunk Alabama with 13 brothers and sisters, and five adoptee orphans. The pictures we have depict a poverty level and human . . .
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March 16, 2006 09:38 AM EST --
Creating a gifted ADD Child takes a lot of work, but here's a simple recipe to follow in order to hardwire your child's brain for pre-disposition to favorable diagnosis.
1. At Birth, interact . . .
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March 20, 2006 12:01 AM EST --
Bryan left Wednesday to see his dad. He always cries when he leaves. I don't. I'm trying to do the good parent routine - so I stand there and choke it in until his plane is a little dot that disappears . . .
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April 04, 2006 11:50 AM EDT --
(dear reader, this is a longer epic snapshot read - if you are looking for something short and snappy - - this isn't it.)
I loved church when I was four or five years old. Children's . . .
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