January, 2018 | PulseonParenting

#MeToo and What Comes Next

Jan 31 2018

I’m not easily swayed. To the frustration of Kirby vacuum salespeople and real estate agents across the Midwest, I’m not quickly convinced, if at all convinced. As Jimmy Buffett sings, “Indecision may or may not be my problem.” Maybe that’s my affliction, too, but I think it really it comes down to my preference for being in my head, mulling things over. And over. And over. Aaaaaand… over. Constant wheel-turning is one of my seriously introvert traits. Overall, I’m an ambivert, sitting on the fence between getting jazzed from socializing and feeling…

Jan 16 2018

My son wants a smartphone in the worst way. And no wonder. His best friend received one for his thirteenth birthday. He gets asked frequently by his 7th-grade peers why he doesn’t have a cell phone, so the pressure is real. Topping his list of reasons he should have one? So he doesn’t have to borrow someone else’s to call for a ride home. He feels embarrassed. It’s never easy in middle school, on the cusp of or in the throes of puberty, trying to navigate your place in the crowd. Especially when your status in that crowd is…

Jan 04 2018

It’s a new year, a new calendar, a new start. I love a new calendar, it’s like a clean slate. No creases or dog-ears, no chicken-scratches lined through and rewritten in another box. No mayhem. Just an open book full of possibility and promise. Before I write in all the appointments, extracurriculars and school inservices, I page through my calendar and enjoy the work my husband has gone to to create each month’s snapshot and how I want my family’s year to be filled with the same joy his art brings to each of the calendar’s 12 months. I…

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