Parenting

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

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This morning my daughter announced during breakfast: “If you lie you break the trust of others.” I found this rather profound for a 7 year old and the timing quite opportune. The day before the Wall Street Journal featured an article “Does Fibbing Help Preserve Marital Harmony” and I was thinking of discussing the subject. [...]

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Winning, it’s all in the attitude

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My daughter won a blue ribbon this weekend. We were rather surprised, to say the least, since this was her first horse show. At some point during the show, one of the other riders had what could only be described as a bit of a fit. In a younger child we would have called it [...]

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Avoid Crying over Spilled Milk

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Well, Labor Day came and went so the girls were off to school this morning. Last night, we laid out the clothes that each girl was going to wear to help ease the pain of getting up early. Although truth be told, I think I was in the most pain when the alarm went off [...]

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Children’s Etiquette Lesson: Boy Were My Kids Mad!

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Today, my children were spitting mad with me. To the point that I’m sure they wanted to strangle me. My daughters were taught a hard lesson about compromise and decision making that they didn’t quite expect. Frankly, I didn’t plan on an etiquette lesson teaching my children manners. It’s not like a weekly piano lesson [...]

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Bribing your Kids to Wear a Fancy Dress

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Okay, so I know that you are absolutely, positively NOT supposed to bribe your kids to get them to do something that you want them to do…like say wear a party dress. I understand that it sends the wrong message. Truly, I have seen how smart children are and how quickly they can turn a [...]

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