Programmer, Writer, Mom
Posted in Personal on Feb 25th, 2010
In my last post, I mentioned a new term I learned (Man words) to refer to profanity. Profanity is a regular topic of conversation in my house since my four year old daughter wants to expand her vocabulary and gobbles up new words and reuses them as soon as possible. And since I have a [...]
Posted in Writing/Reading on Nov 2nd, 2009
I’m standing at school in one of the big rooms. Kids running around trying science experiments. Parents watching their kids, watching other kids, watching other parents. Adults standing around, some are chit-chatting. Kids trying experiments or running around. Organized chaos.
So my daughter’s best friend wants to introduce her dad, who is standing next to me. [...]
Posted in Personal on Oct 8th, 2009
The last two months have been crazy. Stress took a turn down a dark alley. My parenting skills followed. In an effort to fix a problem at home, we sought professional help. Part of the suggestion was to use ‘liberal praise.’ That was not a new idea, just one that I needed to dust off, [...]