Potty Training 101

Potty training. It’s hard. Quite frankly, after the sleepless newborn phase, potty training is my least favorite phase. Thankfully, when Luke was around 2, my cousin’s wife shared the 3-day method with me and it worked so well with all three of our boys. I plan to start training Kenzie soon, so I thought I […]

Kids and Restaurants

You and your family decide that you want to go out to a restaurant for dinner. Bonus for mom and dad – someone else is doing the cooking and cleaning! As you walk into a restaurant with your kids, the hostess starts leading your family to your table, and people who are already sitting down […]

Am I Doing This Parenting Thing Right?

Please tell me I’m not the only parent who thinks this? When the reality hits you that you are responsible for raising another human, it starts to get real. Will the lessons I try to teach them be the right lessons they need to know for a successful life? Am I being too mean? Am […]

One of the Hardest Rules to Follow as a Parent

Imagine this scene: Two families on vacation swimming at the swimming pool. A child from one of the families begins disobeying his dad. Dad tells his son to stop. Son continues to disobey. Dad gets mad, threatens to leave the pool if he doesn’t stop, and the son continues to disobey. Dad yells at son […]

It Takes A Village

So, apparently, I have a blog site. Six years ago, I wrote a few blogs and never closed the site. In April 2016, I felt like I was supposed to write a blog. But here’s the thing, I don’t like to write and I hardly read blogs. Clearly, becoming a ‘blogger’ is the right thing […]