Around dinnertime, I popped the dish into the oven and headed out to pull some weeds in the flower garden. Captain Earthquake was having a snack in the kitchen and I told him I’d be back shortly. In the grand excitement of weeding, I kind of lost track of time. Needless to say, I was [...]

photo credit: tachyondecay TechnoBoy usually completes his math assignments by starting at the last problem on the page and working backward to the first. Normally this isn’t a problem but every once in a while he neglects to notice that he’s not on the right lesson and accidentally works on the wrong one. This happened [...]

Sing the Hokey Pokey to learn left and right. Spin in circles while practicing your counting to 100 Offer a choice: “Do you want to read on the red couch or the brown couch today?” Act out stories with Papo figures. Draw a picture of the story you just read. Go on a bike ride [...]

I love The Mercenary with all my heart. I do. And he really is a sweet boy. Honest. Ask his grandparents. That said, he can be a bull in a china shop some days. Here are a few choice quotes: “This is a waste of time.” We’d listened to the history lesson and when the [...]

I wrote my weekly post over at GNMParents about our adventures in sleeping with Captain Earthquake.  Earnest Parenting: help for parents whose children won’t stay asleep.