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September 8th, 2009
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Imagine you’re divorced with 50-50 custody during the week. For custody on holidays and long weekends, the kids go with one parent or the other. So if your ex got the kids for Memorial Day weekend this year, you get the kids for Labor Day weekend. It might not be a perfect approach, but it [...]
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September 3rd, 2009
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My thirteen-year-old son woke up tired the other morning. Really tired, like it took an army of elephants to drag him out of bed. He could barely hold himself up over his Cheerios and Ovaltine hot cocoa.
“I’m really tired,” he said. (As if I hadn’t clued in to that fact.)
“Did you get enough sleep?” I [...]
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September 2nd, 2009
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Ever have a senior moment?
You know the type – you wonder where your glasses are, only to discover they’re sitting on top of your head?
Well, I’ve got a senior moment beef to pick with my kids. And what better place to do that than over at the Silicon Valley Moms blog.
Use your walker and inch [...]
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September 1st, 2009
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Miley Cyrus did a pole dance during a performance at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards in early August. Picture the 16-year-old singer on top of an ice cream cart (I’m not making this up), hanging onto a pole, grinding away like a stripper in front of a live studio audience full of teens.
My reaction to [...]
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August 24th, 2009
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My teen daughter goes to college in a year, but first she has to apply. And that means writing an application essay or three. (Yeah, I know the title of this blog post says term paper, not application essay. Sue me, I like alliteration!)(btw, I was kidding about the sue me part.)
The other day she [...]
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August 20th, 2009
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Pardon my exhaustion, but my kids are back in school, and I was the custodial parent who helped them shop for school supplies. For some genius reason, our local school district decided mid-August was a great time to open the fall term. That’s seven to ten days earlier than usual, and the stores were barely [...]
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August 13th, 2009
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My daughter and I were walking through town when I noticed a rolled up wad of paper on the ground. Looking more closely, I saw the corner of a twenty dollar bill poking out.
“Hey, there’s money,” I said to my daughter. “Pick it up.”
She sidestepped the roll and peered at it like it was dog [...]