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A Letter of Thanks to My Teenage Son for Teaching Me Perspective in Childrearing

Posted October 28, 2009 - 11:46 by Michelle Hogan

A letter of thanks to my 17 year old son for being the difficult, challenging, delinquent teenager he has been. If he hadn't been so difficult, I wouldn't find parenting the rest of my children so easy! He taught me perspective, something I wish I had learned when he was much younger.

When Is It OK to Bully a Bully?

Posted October 8, 2009 - 06:45 by Michelle Hogan

K-8

Are we raising a nation of coddled whiners because we won't let kids defend themselves?

Life with Lots of Kids

Posted October 4, 2009 - 23:25 by Michelle Hogan

Finances

Get a part time job to help out with the finances? Yeah right, with a bunch of kids, it's not happening! And I'm not sure I want it to.

A Homeschooling Guru Sends Her Kids to Public School

Posted September 4, 2009 - 06:53 by Michelle Hogan

Home School

I was a homeschooling devotee. This year, all of my kids went back to school...public school.

Natural Childbirth: Have I Been Duped?

Posted August 17, 2009 - 18:32 by Michelle Hogan

Birth

I've given birth seven times – six completely without drugs or interventions. My seventh birth was virtually pain-free and it didn't suck! Have I been duped by the Natural Childbirth movement? Could all of my births been pain-free?