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Be a Cool Parent: Keeping Your Cool
Love and patience. Patience and love. This has been my mantra over the last couple of weeks, mostly whispered through a clenched jaw and possibly bulging eyes. Cool Boy has engaged in his most rebellious stage yet, and I’m constantly … Continue reading
Child Instruction: The Difference Between ‘Can’ and ‘Might’
When instructing Cool Baby not to do something, I need to watch what I say lest I cause a catastrophe of epic proportions. Let’s say I can walk in a room and see CB jumping on his bed. For a … Continue reading
How Do I Teach Munching Manners to Cool Baby?
Have you been celebrating National Etiquette Week as feverishly as we have? All week long, we’ve kept our elbows off the table and our feet out of the refrigerator. We’ve coughed into the crooks of our arms. I’ve helped little … Continue reading
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Do You Own Your Child’s Domain Name?
This week, Google released a new commercial for Chrome, their web browser. If you haven’t seen it, I don’t want to spoil it, so please spend 92 seconds and give it a view below. I love the idea of emailing … Continue reading
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I Almost Got Cool Baby Hooked on Sweets
Somehow, someway, we’ve steered Cool Baby clear of a love of sweets. Just a few weeks ago, he shot Dora down on ice cream. Then on Easter, one of his best friends offered him a pink plastic egg filled with … Continue reading
