I’ve been thinking about mom lies and mom fails lately. The other day, a dear friend of mine was trying to sneak in a little Christmas shopping while at Target with her daughter. Well, her daughter saw one of the gifts and then had lots of questions and my friend felt caught in a corner and wanted out so she…
Thanks a lot, Chester.
Do you guys have a least favorite day of the week? My least favorite day is Tuesday, more specifically: Tuesday evening. Tuesday evenings leave me feeling over-scheduled and frazzled, and I did it to myself, folks. In an attempt to make my life easier and less taxi-ish, I scheduled overlapping classes for T and Leo…
Climbing the walls
Like many parents, I’m guilty of letting my kids get away with certain things that I swore I would never let them do (like the occasional dinner picnic). My children were not going to bounce on couches, let alone vault over them and then ride the arm rests as if they were mechanical bulls. Nope, my children would use couches for their sole purpose: sitting….
Danger Monster
The terrible twos are such a joke! Two-year-olds are cute. They are curious about the world and they like to explore it all the time. Honestly, I enjoyed the two year old phase three different times now. I sort of love that age. But three…now three is a challenge, and I say this as someone…
Church with Kids… Sigh. (Sunday Musings)
Posts here at My Little Poppies are typically about raising my children, parenting a twice exceptional child, and figuring out this whole first year of homeschooling thing. On my Facebook page, I share posts, articles, and research that I find interesting or thought-provoking, from a homeschooling-parenting-educator-school psych perspective. I’ve tried to steer clear of religion and…
I promised the ugly!
When I started this blog, I promised my friends that I’d share the good, the bad, the funny, and the ugly of homeschooling. Homeschooling isn’t all sunshine and roses, folks. Well I’ve got some ugly to share with you today! We’ve encountered some homeschool challenges recently, and it hasn’t been pretty! First, a little bit of…
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