5 Minutes For Parenting

Baby Food
By Kelly
Growing up, I was never the domestic type. My dream was multiple careers, not multiple kids. I brushed off attempts by my Mom to teach me how to cook and clean and iron. (…)

The Trouble with Magnet Schools
By Veronica
Today I will be standing in line with hundreds of other people in the cold, cold weather for at least two hours, but possibly five. It's not for a concert or a Broadway show or the latest high tech gadget. We will be standing in line because we hope to get our children into the schools of our choice. (…)

A Roomful Of Hope
By Mary
Written October 5, 2008 in the Dominican Republic
This morning as I walked up an uneven set of stairs and stepped into the hubbub of my third Compassion project of the week, I didn’t know that this was the project that would touch me to the core. (…)

A Dose of Humor - What do you find when you "Decrapify" the SUV?
5 Minutes for Parenting's weekly column, A Dose of Humor, is here to remind you to take your humor pill regularly as the best medicine to treat the side effects of parenting! It features a different blogger every week and is hosted by Rachel at Grasping for Objectivity in My Subjective Life. (…)

You Moved Us
By Nell
Heather with Especially Heather writes about the love of a daughter for her mother in I Just Had To Share.
Audrey with Mom Generations vlogs about her life with her four boys four and under. (…)
Fashion sense?
By Cassie
I became a Godmother this week. It was a beautiful baptism and a lovely after party. We were getting ready to eat supper when an older relative approached me. (…)

Changing Music
By Beck
I lost my mp3 player recently - where could it have gone? I really don't know - and it's surprising to me how much I've missed it. (…)

Heffalump
By Kelly
I sat on my kitchen floor last night and played "let's fall all over Mom" with Teyla. (…)

He Stays
By Veronica
Last night at dinner my four-year-old began quizzing me about our family tree. This has been a theme for her lately. She chooses a random relative and asks questions about him or her. This time she piped up with "Mama, who was your daddy's grandpa?"
That was not an easy question to answer. I have no stories about my father's grandpa, because he abandoned his kids after his wife died. the children were raised by a strict and resentful aunt. I explained this briefly to my daughter, but then, thinking about the worries this might create for her, I added, "Not all men are good daddies like yours. Your daddy will not leave. He stays forever."
This has been a bad week for us. We have been potty-training our middle two children with mixed success. My three-year-old, who already evidences her mother's hatred of being wrong, has decided that since the potty is intimidating and the diaper is for babies, she will refuse to relieve herself at all ever. She screams and sits on the floor to clench the necessary muscles into submission. Meanwhile, the one-year-old has diaper rash and the new baby has a colon like Old Faithful, in force if not predictability, which makes carrying her is a special kind of Russian roulette. (…)

Nine O'Clock and All is Not Well, But It Will Be
By Megan
I've been praying for a week about this day - just leaning on God to give me what I need to do what needs to be done for my little family from hour to hour on this, my first real, serious day as a mother of two. (…)

A Dose of Humor - Woe Da Pay!!!
5 Minutes for Parenting's weekly column, A Dose of Humor, is here to remind you to take your humor pill regularly as the best medicine to treat the side effects of parenting! It features a different blogger every week and is hosted by Rachel at Grasping for Objectivity in My Subjective Life. (…)

What Makes A Good Mother?
By Cassie
Last weekend was my son's first tumbling meet. This wasn’t just a tumbling meet but also a milestone. (…)

Storms
By Beck
It has been unseasonably warm here for the past several days, a condition - the weather guy assures us - that will pass by the weekend. (…)

Election Night Urgency
By Kelly
The electricity of election night is palpable. (…)

Not Yet Bigger Than a Breadbox
By Veronica
At the baby's check-up this week, the doctor and I were both surprised to find she was growing quite well. She is in the 81st percentile for weight, a definite first for this family of skinny babies. I could not be more pleased. I congratulated my breasts on all their hard work. (…)

My Knight in Shining Wingtips
By Megan
I wrote this post for FriedOkra back in the summer, before Peabody was born. I was all-kindsa pregnant, all hot and cranky and clumsy and OVER IT ALREADY! (…)

I landed on the Bad Mom space
By Gretchen
My children do not know how to play Monopoly.
I never thought of this as a mothering failure until yesterday. (…)

A Dose of Humor - Degas . . . Monet . . . Mackenzay . . .
5 Minutes for Parenting's weekly column, A Dose of Humor, is here to remind you to take your humor pill regularly as the best medicine to treat the side effects of parenting! It features a different blogger every week and is hosted by Rachel at Grasping for Objectivity in My Subjective Life. (…)

You Moved Us
By Nell
My name is Nell and I over blog at Casual Friday Everyday.com. I was thrilled when Stephanie approached me to host the weekly "You Moved Us" feature here at 5 Minutes for Parenting. (…)