Posted On: June 12, 2012
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My kids are angels. Usually. But being kids, they’re often little devils too. Thus parenthood survival often requires more than patience; it also calls for the occasional manipulating, bribing and hiding—as in, hiding the truth.…
Posted On: June 10, 2012
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To paraphrase our good friend Garrison Keillor, “It’s been a pretty quiet day in Barga, Toscana.” The sun rose early. The stalls of the Saturday market were stocked and rigged. And here and there, in…
Posted On: May 25, 2012
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When the tough want to get going, tough sh*t happens. Murphy’s law? Conspiracy? Or just life? Minor disasters (that could stop your trip and ruin your day) come in many forms. Here are the latest…
Posted On: May 17, 2012
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Yee gads! The BreakAway bus leaves again in just 19 days–this time for 5 weeks in Europe with the whole famn damily of 4. We are, of course, in a calculated state of denial, which,…
Posted On: February 18, 2012
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Chest pain. All new. Not good. So on Wednesday, when it hadn’t stopped for three days and the pain scale hit 6 on the 10 scale, I called McHealth. They insisted I go straight to…
Posted On: October 31, 2011
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Friend of a friend. That’s how I met Wendy Swart Grossman, today’s guest blogger.
Face to face. That’s how we will soon meet, instead of screen to screen.
St. Olaf College. That’s where we both…
Posted On: September 17, 2011
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Survey sez…
32% of parents play computer games with their children every day
80% described this as quality time
Source: PopCap Games
Screen living continues to turn us on. If 80% of parents say Guitar…
Posted On: June 11, 2011
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These could be shocking words. But when my 8-year-old daughter squealed them recently, I chuckled. She was playing with my hair—bored out of her skull while watching her 14-year-old brother play baseball. Again. She had…
Posted On: May 31, 2011
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As one of my morning rituals, I walk part-way to the bus stop with my teenage son. We don’t say much. It’s early and sometimes dark and cold, after all. But like the other kids…
Posted On: April 7, 2011
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38% are unemployed. 12% live at home with their parents. No, we’re not talking about some faraway third world nation, but rather, 20-somethings right here in the USA.
So much for free-market freedom
As usual,…
