In all honesty, if you want peaceful mornings (on most days), then you have to take responsibility for them. Any good coach will tell you that you can't expect greatness from your players if you don't do tough work yourself. This is what we do to survive mornings...
Keeping any surface in our house clean for any length of time is a challenge. It's like the newly cleaned counters and table tops scream: "Look! There's a space to put your junk here! Oh, the floor? Sure, throw some things on the floor, but put something sticky on me too!!"
While good dental hygiene is important to me, I mainly take the kids so someone else can shame them into brushing their teeth. I enjoy when my kids have to hear the same lecture I've given a million times from their snarky hygienist.
Achieving any goal means going in with the right game plan. So use the tips in this post to forge your strategy for single-parenting success. You'll appreciate the edge these ideas can give you, and for that matter, so will your kids.
My parenting fails have included the usual mishaps, but my largest parenting fails have mostly indicated that it's tricky to keep track of so many kids. In the fall, five or six years ago, we went on a family picnic. It was a nice area with trees and room to let the kids run
I like my fashion like I like my kids' homework: Quick and Easy! It feels good to know I'm dressed like an adult with some fashion sense. It makes me look and feel like I have my sh*t together. The thing is, I don't have time or patience to shop, and I can't tell if
Filling out school registration forms is monotonous, gives me writer's cramp, and is incredibly time consuming. I streamline the process with pre-printed shipping labels.
Now that smart phones store credit card/ reward card information, business contacts, as well as photos, I have extra slots in my wallet for my children's "Birth Stats".
