June, 2017 | PulseonParenting

What to Expect When Your Son Starts Puberty

Jun 27 2017

I am in awe of the transformation. I am a little sad, too. My younger son, born breech at barely five pounds, is becoming a man. At age 12 he is hands-down taller than me, with a cracking voice, acne and, um, hair (more on that below…). It boggles my mind, a glimpse into what is in store for his twin brother, who has yet to join him in this journey. I decided to repost What to Expect When Your Son Starts Puberty from April, 2015, to help us Moms (and Dads, of course) navigate these changes, changes in our little boys that…

Jun 22 2017

My family lives in a free-spirited town. A place where you can’t say I’ve seen it all, but you regularly get a little closer. Like the other day. As my favorite barista was handing me a much-needed java, I spotted, making a bee-line across the local highway, a bicyclist pulling a child trailer. Even in my coffee-deprived state I was present enough to think OMG, that’s dangerous, then realized with relief that the trailer did not chauffeur a toddler but an oversized stuffed toy huskie. An arthritic toy dog, who I swear had a look of frozen terror on…

Jun 17 2017

It’s here! Summer break. Honestly, my head is spinning the school year went by so fast. And I feel totally unprepared. So I dug up this post from 2015 (which also earned a repost last year) to help refresh my brain on how to (and not!) navigate summer with kids. And I hope it helps you, too: Two years ago, as the school year drew to an end, I wrote a post that received some flak. In Hooray for Summer? (In retrospect, Horrors, It’s Summer! would have been a fun title…) I described the difficult transition for parents, myself…

Jun 09 2017

Homeschool is out for the summer! We did it. We really, really did it. 175 full days. Sometimes we hummed along without a hitch, and some days drug on. And on. And on. In other words, our school year was much like a traditional one, with ups and downs. And here are some of them: The “ups”: I got to spend lots of time with my kids. Every day. We haven’t spent this much time together since before the kids started all-day Kindergarten. I feel like I know them so much better in their “tween” stage; I’ve had more time…

Archive - June 2017

What to Expect When Your Son Starts Puberty

Rules of the Biking Road: Hand Signals

Hooray for Summer (Exclamation Point): Steps to a Successful Break (Question Mark)

Homeschool: a Year in Review