parenting

I love my little bundles of joy but sometimes they can ruin my week because they are little thieves! Thieves may be too strong of a word but I am tired of them high-jacking my phone. It's not like they don't have their own devices.

If you are anything like me you don't always have the magic answer when it comes to parenting.

Having a good mom is almost as good as winning the lottery. There is nothing better than having someone love you unconditionally. According to inspire more, there are 14 specific signs that you had an awesome mom as a child:

Every teenager is going to try and lie to their parents at one point or another. It's part of growing up. Some kids might put a lot of thought and preparation into their lie. Because of this, they might be a better liar than you.

The older I get, the less I understand teenagers. They have their own style, their own little worlds and their own language.

Nobody ever tells you just how hard being a parent really is. Sometime you wonder if parenting is fun at all. So how much of parenting is fun, and how much is hard work?

If you know me, you probably know that I tend to lean towards the overly cautious side.  I don't know if it's because I watch too much TV or it's because of the time I lost my parents at the grocery store for a full five minutes when I was seven. Bottom line:  I worry when I'm not with my kids.

As parents we are responsible for teaching our children lots of things. But what are the most important things we need to teach them?

It's times like these that I wish I had a parenting book. It's the end of summer break, my kids are tired from all their summer activities and I am running out of things to keep them busy.

Most parents don't mean to embarrass their kids but, it is guaranteed to happen at one point or another.

I will be the first to admit that before I had children I swore I wasn't going to bribe them. Then I started potty training and out came the candy. By the time my kids started school I was bribing them, or as I like to call it...rewarding them, with toys.

I was in the grocery store yesterday and I witnessed a mom dragging her son out of the store by the ear.  She had that look on her face. You know, the one your mom gave you when she had "... had it UP TO HERE!"  Been there. What surprised me a little were all the looks that she was getting.  And I'm not just talking about the natural attention caused by the commotion but the looks of dis