by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life, Negotiations & Lullabies
‘Twas the night before school and all through the house not a child was stirring not even my preschooler. (To be honest I just put him to bed for the third time.) Its 0 days. No more days to prepare. Its – as my kids say – go time. Today we had our last...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
I’m a heart-pounding 9 days away from the first day of school. We have procured new shoes for gym, replaced high-water pants with new ones and are now sporting newly shorn heads – what remains? Two more chats. And these chats center on friendship. One thing maybe you...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
Yes, I see all your first day of school pictures but I am still 13 days from our first day of school! So today I am having the third of my Must Have Back to School Chats with my kids. Today’s chat is about race. I write often here about talking with my kids about race...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
I am 19 days from the first day of school and am ready to have the second of my Must Have Back to School Chats with my kids. Today its about authority. Hopefully I have modeled what good authority looks like at home, but in the classroom and on the playground, there...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
I am 26 days from the first day of school. 26 days from all three of my children going to school. Not just two – all three. Not that I am counting (never mind that giant calendar in my office that has red X’s through every day of August so far). I jest (a little), but...
