Posted February 17, 2010 - 03:00 by Debbie Dragon
Eating out with young children can be a daunting experience. Will your child behave or will they have a meltdown in the middle of your meal? Will they throw their food at the person sitting next to you? Here are some ideas to make eating out with your child a little easier.Posted February 12, 2010 - 07:45 by Margaret Garcia-Couoh
It can make or break a friendship if you can’t communicate about all the mishaps waiting in the wings when a childless friend comes to call. So here it goes — my list of things to tell your buddy before you start freaking out and they start thinking you are from another planet.Posted February 10, 2010 - 02:00 by Lori Kerrigan
Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are parents to 19 children with no current plans to stop adding to their brood. How many kids are too many? And why do we care?Posted February 5, 2010 - 14:01 by Sonja Stewart
Michelle Obama has received a lot of bad press for her recent comments on her daughter's weight. I took a look at what she actually said, versus the rumors. Now, you can tell me if she was out of line.Posted December 10, 2009 - 17:00 by Marla Walters
The season of gifts has arrived. As the Parenting Squad’s resident curmudgeon, I feel it is an appropriate time to review an important form of etiquette, unfortunately in decline: the thank-you note.Posted September 17, 2009 - 10:04 by Lain Ehmann
Serena Williams has it out with a lineswoman during the US Open. US Rep Joe Wilson shouts down President Obama. And Kanye West interrupts Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the VMAs. As a parent who’s constantly trying to teach her kids to control themselves, I have to ask, What is up with people these days? Can’t they keep their big mouths shut?Posted August 11, 2009 - 08:32 by Sonja Stewart
Before you take that disagreement with your spouse to the bedroom, think about how your children may learn of it. It's a fine line, but if you can play by the rules, your kids will benefit from your “heated discussion,” and pick up some valuable tools.Posted July 23, 2009 - 18:36 by Margaret Garcia-Couoh
I have been collecting information, advice, and observations about different cultural styles in parenting. This is the result of half a summer’s work. Lesson number one? Embracing Redneck Softball and all it has to offer is making me a better parent--teaching me to love without hovering.Posted May 3, 2009 - 15:56 by Marla Walters
Were you born in a barn? Raised by wolves? Do you want people to think YOUR child was? Odds are, you don’t. Here are some etiquette basics to teach your child.Posted April 21, 2009 - 14:12 by Sarah Peppel
Armpit hair, zits, boobs, Chick-fil-A. . . yeah, you know where this is going. . . Adolescence, puberty and my weekend at the mall. If you think you are ready when your child hits THAT age, think again.Posted March 27, 2009 - 13:54 by Paul Michael
I've always been easy on my two little girls, but recently it occurred to me that I've been a little too easy on them. I play the part of the good cop, my wife teaching them more about life than I do. And I finally came to realize the other day that I may just have to start beating them. I'm talking, of course, about competitive games.Posted February 6, 2009 - 12:24 by Carrie Kirby
If kids are supposed to be on their best behavior in the air, then adults should too. I'm talking to you, Ms. Business Traveler who can't believe she got seated next to my brood.Posted January 17, 2009 - 14:09 by Margaret Garcia-Couoh
I don't think my kids are the model of good behavior but enough people around me do think they are. We've been on a train trip meeting all sorts of people...perhaps they are models. And if they are, here's why...Posted December 11, 2008 - 10:31 by Margaret Garcia-Couoh
Are you having a baby in December? Are you a Christmas Baby? There's many ways we wind up skimping on our Christmas babies that make them feel put out by the holiday. Here's a quick list of things to remind family and friends and we parents to do and not to do with our December offspring.Posted September 27, 2008 - 18:53 by Margaret Garcia-Couoh
I know it's taboo in America to bring up various differences of social class but when junior says: Mom, can we invite Johnny over? Do you say yes right away or do you redirect and say, what about playing with Timmy instead?Posted August 6, 2008 - 11:00 by Caitlin Giles
August already? With just a few weeks of summer left, I have been reflecting on the season's happiest moments with my two little ones. I'll tell you mine and then you tell me yours.Posted July 25, 2008 - 15:35 by Margaret Garcia-Couoh
This summer was my first venture into traveling alone with the children since the husband had to work. (Hats off to all the single moms out there who do this on a regular basis). I found that keeping a zen like calm goes a long way into making the unexpected and the disaster a little more adventure like and way more fun for the kiddies.Posted June 18, 2008 - 22:53 by Margaret Garcia-Couoh
School is winding down and so is Little League season (June is national Little League month). You are almost finished carting junior around from school yard to baseball diamond to pizza parlor to game again. So it begs the question. Which kind of Little League parent are YOU?Posted June 18, 2008 - 18:59 by Corina Fiore
The picture represents how I feel about unsolicited or absolute advice: angry and annoyed. I often ignore advice, shake my head in agreement, and move on my way. I wasn't always that way, and I was reminded of the havoc unsolicited advice can reap on a family when reading a message board this week.Posted May 22, 2008 - 20:50 by Lori Kerrigan
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