Opposites attract, and that is probably why my very masculine husband is a great fit for girly, nurturing me. We have a son who knows exactly who to turn to when he wants specific things, because we are so different in our parenting styles. For example, bath time is quite an adventure. Little man knows…
Tag Archive: parenting
Great Expectations
By Kelly If you want to know what kind of day I’m having, you need ask only one simple question: Has the baby napped? If yes, then I’m having a glorious day, abounding in productivity and sprinkled with sunshine and rainbows. If no, then I’m having a frustrating day, thick with clouds and whining. Of…
To Parent like Dumbledore
By Kelly My brother got me a set of Harry Potter books for Christmas. It was a good gift, seeing as I somehow managed to escape the whole Potter phenomenon. I had just been telling my husband that I would really like to read the series someday — which, now that I think about it,…
Instructions for Parenting
By Cassie Kids don’t come with instructions and neither does being a single parent. There is no one way to raise your child. No one to tell you how to handle each situation, each moment, each emotion. Sometimes it’s easy to find the answer. Sometimes that motherly instinct comes raging in to save the day. …
Election Night Urgency
By Kelly The electricity of election night is palpable. During my years as a newspaper reporter and editor and then a TV news producer, I spent many election nights in cold, windowless newsrooms, which, on election night, fairly buzzed with adrenaline, bad coffee and jokes that remain, to this day, unprintable. (Why, yes, I was…
Bedtime Thoughts
By Kelly The kids wouldn’t go to sleep tonight. They sat in their beds and read books and played Legos and skittered down the stairs to suggest that they might sleep better if they could just get some scissors out of my office and create a pretend computer out of paper before turning in for…
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Annie Shultz
Managing EditorAnnie is a stay at home mom to 3 very young children. She fell in love with words at a young age, knowing early she wanted to be a writer. She lives in the Kansas woods where she documents her life through the lens of her camera and the clicks of her keyboard. She is always seeking to bring parents together - for we all have on thing in common, the overflowing love for our children.
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