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How To Answer Your Kid’s Difficult Questions…
I grew up going to Sunday school. I enjoyed decorating the classroom windows with brightly colored tissue papera trailer park version of stained glass. I liked the apple juice and butter cookies at snack time. The restgoing into the big church to listen to the sermon and take communionI merely tolerated. Then Mom made the mistake of signing me up for a Bible Study summer camp. The instructors had us discuss familiar stories from The Biblestories that Id never heard of because I was too concerned with my butter cookie to pay attention. I tried to fake it. But mostly I prayed to God to get me out of there so I could go play on the Slip n Slide before the entire summer was buried under the heavy weight of theology.
When Autism Looks Like OCD
When Autism Looks Like OCD This blog post only pertains to my son. I am in no way saying that autism is OCD, or OCD is autism, or even that OCD is a typical characteristic found on the autism spectrum. This post is simply about my own observations. Why am I talking about OCD? Because…
7 Reasons Parenting a Toddler is an Exercise in Insanity
Jerry Seinfeld once said that “a two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.” And that phrase is permanently etched into my mind. Have truer words ever been spoken about toddlers? Because he’s right, of course. We all have to be slightly mad to get through the…
Developing Good Study Habits
One of the most challenging aspects of parenting older children is teaching them how to study. While sitting down at the kitchen table and reviewing the content in the book can be helpful, it's not always enough to give children the information they need to succeed on coming tests. Teaching your child to study, however,…
“Are You Her Mother?”
My family loves celebrating firsts. First anything. First smile, first word, first birthday, first haircut – you get the idea. But on my daughters first day of school in her dual language (English/Korean) classroom, we got our first are you her mother? question.As a biracial mom raising multicultural children faced with questions like this, I have to remind myself that most people are just curious. My first inclination is to answer, “who do …