Parenting Archive

Brilliant idea re-visited

By now you have all read the article mentioned in the last post. Hopefully you looked at the comments left on this blog and have thought about it! What, you read my blog for simple mindless pleasure? Many states have Safe Haven laws (basically you can abandon a child up to 30 days old at

Brilliant idea of the day

Read this. Duh, why didn’t I think of that? I wonder if my GPS can get us to Caryville …

“Run Away” ~King Arthur (aka Graham Chapman)

There are two times when my advice is “Run away, run, run fast, go, go, go!!!!” One is when you are a Canadian blogger with an over controlling, abusive, psycho, manipulating soon to be ex-husband and the second time I give that advice is when you realize that your kid is really messed up and

Path of least resistance

I am sitting at dinner and there is this couple there. I know the woman a bit; nice, intelligent woman, but rather high maintenance and insecure. She is there with her boyfriend of a month, the first since her divorce. The guy’s an ass. He is pompous, self-serving, and worse … he relates a story about last

“need help”

Just a normal evening. Pearlsky was in her play area just hanging out and her geek dad was actually working on the new look for his blog (very early preview here). About seven-thirty I started feeling a bit queasy, and by eight o’clock I was in full fledged “hugging the porcelain throne” mode. I was retching pretty hard, and

Filicide and other fun stuff

There is another one of those articles out there … Parents of autistic children speak out on Sunnyvale murder-suicide. The gist of the article is, well, here is the beginning of it … Taking care of autistic children is hard enough, but caring for them when they grow up can test a parent’s resolve like nothing

“A lot of people are tired around here, but I’m not sure they’re ready to lie down, stretch out and fall asleep.” ~Jim Jones

I’m tired. And yes, that quote is from that Jim Jones. I need to get away for a day later this week, and it is school vacation week, so Pearlsky is home. It took me three days to arrange for care for her, one nanny from 8 to noon, another noon to 1:30, the next

The dog ate my homework

I have all sorts of reasons and excuses for not posting lately, but as I tell people all the time, never give a reason for something. So I ain’t telling you why. Okay, hints. Several things are going on with Pearlsky that I am having trouble getting my head around and they are easier to