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Ban the ice cream truck – my son is having a meltdown 4 Apr 2012 | 04:32 am
That iconic sound in the distance – the tune of the ice cream truck. How exciting that sound was as a kid. It meant we just may get one of those delicious ice cream treats. You know the ones that f...
Keep an eye on your cinnamon 30 Mar 2012 | 07:29 am
Collapsed lung. Inability to breath. Infection. Ventilator. Death. Cinnamon. Yes, all from eating cinnamon. The “Cinnamon Challenge“. If you have not yet heard, this is a popular game where the c...
At what age are kids too old to trick-or-treat? 10 Oct 2011 | 10:14 pm
Halloween…you know how it goes…you get the cute little trick-or-treaters ringing your doorbell all decked out as witches or pumpkins, parents standing not far behind reminding them to say ‘thank you’....
HPV vaccine – confused by choice? 26 Sep 2011 | 09:50 pm
Sometimes I think having a choice makes things that much more difficult. I have written before about my hesitation and confusion about the HPV vaccine. Here we are a year later. I have no more know...
Alcohol, drugs? Not my kid. 14 Sep 2011 | 01:44 am
“My son is an honor student.” “My daughter hangs with the right crowd.” “My son is on the football team.” “My daughter is in the Advanced Biology class.” “He would never do drugs, he is too smart ...
Keeping up with it all – do you? 3 Sep 2011 | 06:04 am
The papers have started piling up. You know, those back to school papers of which class does what, the expectations for each class, forms to be filled out, newsletters, you name it. The pile has beg...
Do these commercials go too far? 9 Aug 2011 | 09:21 pm
Each day around 1 o’clock as I sit here at my desk I hear a terrifying noise coming from the TV in a nearby room. It is the sound of a baby coughing – a very young baby. If you have ever seen the co...
Do 8th graders and Hooters mix? 2 Jun 2011 | 11:40 pm
My kids tend to fill me in on the topics that outrage them at school each day. It is usually about how a teacher handled a situation or a kid who was irate in class. Yesterday’s news was that a teach...
Give your kid WiFi – he is safer 17 May 2011 | 11:24 am
Remember that feeling when you were a kid of winter finally being over? Time to play outside…and not come in until dinnertime only to go back out once again until you were dragged in by your mom. I r...
When did school sports become out-of-school sports? 8 May 2011 | 08:24 am
It is that time of year again. Spring sports. Last night I was at the lacrosse field. Today I spent the morning at the soccer field and then back to the lacrosse field only to wake up tomorrow morn...
