Just call me the Grinch who stole Halloween. I didn’t really, but judging by the reaction I had from some parents and families the first year I cancelled holiday parties, you would have thought I was. Yes, yes, I know…school parties are fun….the kids look forward to them….it is just one (5 days) day…I have heard all these reasons and more about why school parties were necessary. My favorite was the parent who was upset because I was taking away her opportunity to volunteer…How about popcorn Wednesday? Reading log Thursday? Daily reading buddy….or any of the millions of little tasks…
Apple trees…
Why is she writing about apple trees? Seriously? Yep. Read on. You may see the connection here. I need to preface this post with the statement that although I am employed by Jackson Public Schools, this is purely my opinion and does not reflect the positions or opinions of JPS. As a teacher, I always had a pack of paperwork that I sent home on the first day of school: the forms from the office, a personality inventory, and my discipline procedures. My discipline procedure letter started out to the effect of, ‘This is the letter that is my least…
Mom of boys….outnumbered
Being a mom is hard. Being a boy mom is HARD. I will say there were days when my girls gave me a run for my money, but as a fellow female, it wasn’t the same kind of struggle as raising boys is. You relate to your daughters, you remember what it was like to go through the things your daughters go through. Sons though….mothering sons is a whole different world. Boy moms know that our sons are future husbands and fathers and we know what we expect from them as men. We work hard to instill those values and…
Room clear…
Remember before you were a parent and you would see kids acting like brats in restaurants or the movies? Remember when you said, “My kids are never going to act like that, they will know better!” And then you became a parent and your child threw a fit in the middle of the grocery store. We have all been there, because let’s face it, the normally developing child goes through a tantruming stage as part of their emotional development. Dealing with the loss of not getting what they want…even if it is the stupid cardboard cylinder from the toilet paper…
The stages of Momming…
Being a mom is undoubtedly one of the hardest jobs….ever. We constantly second guess ourselves, compare our momming techniques and offspring to others, and many of us struggle to balance our mom job with careers, marriages, divorces, and just life. And it is hard. We find ourselves defending our parenting, especially when it comes to controversial topics like co-sleeping, vaccinations, terrible two’s or the teen age day years…And just as we have survived one stage of development with our children, we are on to the next. As I watch my two youngest boys grow into young men, I am finding…