Kids do grow up too fast — and something needs to be done about it. It’s stressful. It’s sad. And it’s just downright jarring to my sensibilities to walk into a room to see kids grow long legs and mature faces practically overnight. OK… maybe it was three years, or five years — but it [...]
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The art projects are quickly making their way onto our floors, tables, sofas and directly in front of my face. It’s a sign that the clock is ticking fast and furiously. The teachers are handing me back pieces of my child — the pieces I missed when I was busy running around trying to catch [...]
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Last fall, we felt lucky if they scored one goal during a game. The coach told them if they practiced and worked on their drills, they’d be in the championship game by spring. We appreciated the coach’s optimism. Today, as we pulled into the parking lot of the spring soccer tournament for our third game [...]
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The spray-painted black mortarboards that sit atop the faces that carry the sometimes-toothless smiles, sun-kissed cheeks and bare-skinned knees appear, at first, to be a silly parody of the real ceremony happening elsewhere in auditoriums across the country. That would be the real graduation where the participant’s knees are covered with black gowns that carry [...]
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Before the kids left on their wild excursion to DC, there was a “parent meeting.” The meeting my husband and I later called the “Scared Straight Parenting Talk.” In addition to no phones, there were also other rules: If your child is noisy enough to disturb the guests in the next room, and they complain, [...]
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