For those unfamiliar with the term “redshirting,” it’s the act of holding a child back from Kindergarten in order to give them an academic or sports advantage. It gives the child a full year advantage on size and maturity over their peers. For the academic advantage, the thought is that giving them a year to [...]
Hello. I would like to extend an invitation to every extreme couponer out there. Please feel free to come to my house so that I can kick YOU in the crotch. You deserve it. After watching a handful of people who have found an artful way around the system by making a career out of [...]
Another day, another ‘nurse-in’. Time for my quarterly ‘I’m too kewl and genius for the room ”cause I breastfeed anywhere I want’ story. I write these as often as the new mommy cries for attention get national coverage and then I watch my Facebook and Twitter fans dwindle in response because I have dared to [...]
Just found out today that because of Obamacare, health insurance companies are no longer offering ‘child only’ policies. I wanted to switch my kids from their current health insurance, which is ‘child only’ to my own private policy, but it has to go through “underwriting” first. In other words, let’s micro-analyze every sniffle and sneeze [...]
It’s a burning question, so make sure you’ve had a lot of rest and full stomach before answering: Okay, so you go into a Subway and order sandwiches for your bratty kids and because you’re a flake or you’re simply not hip to the ways of your family’s preferences, you accidentally have the minimum wage [...]
Guest post by Diane Fairfax I really didn’t want to have a playdate last week. Had a ton of things going on — school plays, sports and an ailing mother to care for, but no was not an option for one particular mom who apparently lived for having playdates in her very small world reference. [...]
Guest post by Roger Caldwell As we get closer to an election year, I find myself watching politics more closely, and I’m noticing something familiar about the interactions of Congress and the president. There have been several issues lately (the debt ceiling, the jobs crisis, heightened tension in the Middle East) that have given us [...]
I heard a teaser the other day about the pending doom and gloom that comes this Halloween Day, the day in which the United Nations believes the 7 billionth person will be born, because of exponential birth rates that have caused a population explosion over the last 8 years. But the teaser didn’t focus on [...]
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