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2025
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2025
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A formula for a perfect kids’ summer
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Spring and Summer bring new milestones
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Memorial Day Parade:
We have gone from the little girl two years ago who panicked at the sound of the fire truck sirens, to a little girl last year who was enthralled by the passing pageantry, to the little girl this year who dove headlong into the street for candy.
The American rites of maturation are right on schedule.
Your vacation and their childcare
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Following the last vacation season – spring break – I heard from several parents about their young children’s disruptive behavior at home.
They were puzzled by this, as they had maintained their children’s daycare schedule even though they took time off from work. They had made this decision because they needed time to “recharge their batteries.”
But children need time away from the daily grind too.
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MAY
2025
Easter tradition lives on
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The home of my mother- and father-in-law has been the Easter gathering place for the ever-growing family for the last three decades. In my first years as part of that family my own young children and their young cousins were the joyful recipients of their uncle’s Easter egg hiding. Little plastic eggs filled with candy hidden throughout the front and back yards in obvious and incredibly-not-obvious places (the best hidden eggs would be found the following year. Or later.).
The ...
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APR
2025
APR
2025
Sundown, spring.
A small barefoot girl discovers a watering can in our garage and decides it’s time to help the flowers.
Muddy feet and happy plants ensue.
Lighting Bug’s 2-year-oldness climbed the next rung.
When we read her favorite nursery rhymes she has started inserting comments to negate the point.
So we end up with classics like the:
“There was (not) an ...
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28
MAR
2025
MAR
2025
“Is it gonna be OK?”
We watched a particularly exciting kids’ movie last night, with much “danger” to our heroes. Lightning Bug is not used to such fare and curled in between Carol and me, her body tense, genuinely scared, asking “Is it gonna be OK?”
And I flashed back to when I was about her age, watching the Disney animated “Robin Hood” with my mother – her first viewing, my second. In the climax heroic Robin disappears into ...
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MAR
2025
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2025
