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MAY
2025
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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2025
Tuesday’s fatal shooting at Shaker Heights Public Library has closed schools for the day. Your children will have questions.
The amount of information children need from parents in such situations differs depending on the child and, of course, his or her age. Here are a few resources to help talk with your children about the most recent school shooting:
- Blog post from The Hanna Perkins Grandmothers: Some insight ...
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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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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2025
Why, hello again, toddler stomach bug!
I’d forgotten this particular dance.
Gone through seven sets of clothing so far.
Hoping the first batch of pajamas get out of the dryer in time for the next round….
I’m sure some spent Valentine’s night being romanced, or remembering romance, or ...
FEB
2025
