10 Ways to Punish Your Kids (Without Leaving Bruises)
Punishment is a tricky subject to discuss with most parents. While some think a belt’s secondary purpose is to keep pants up, others feel that mere sarcasm warrants a CPS visit (those people, of course, are morons). How can one discipline their child without inviting a visit from the Bleeding Heart Gestapo? Below are 10 [...]
7 Must-Dos When Preparing Your Kid for Kindergarten
Starting elementary school is an alarming, unrelenting descent into hell for many kids. They go from the loving cocoon of parental affection to a place where breaking a crayon could get a bitch cut (probably with safety scissors, but still…) Your kid will be bulletproof at school, however, if he’s seen, heard and experienced it [...]
A Mother’s Guide to Surviving the Fall Sports Season
It’s cold, it’s long and it’s boring. Watching kids runs around a field in the rain, gray, cold has to be one of the most painful experiences of parenthood both physically and mentally. Physically sitting on those hard benches, both cold, hard metal and wood, feeling your core body temperature dip from being outside, and [...]