best iphone/ipad apps for kindergarten-aged kids
Last week I shared some of my favorite apps for the preschoolers, and today I wanted to share some of my favorites for my two kindergartners. I’ve found some really great tools for my iphone that help reinforce what the kids are learning at school. At our house, we have an ipad, and we also have two iphones (the one I use as a phone, and an older model that is no longer activated but can still get apps via wifi). The kids are constantly asking to play on them . . . and since we use a timer . . .
Top Ten Annoying Things People Say To Adoptive Parents That, Even Though They Mean Well, Drive Adoptive Parents Up A Tree
My friend Karen Walrond is an adoptive mom, and also a writer, photographer and author of the gorgeous and soul-nurturing book The Beauty of Different. A couple weeks ago she sent me this post she wrote when her daughter was young, to commiserate on the questions we often get as adoptive families. I asked if I could repost it here, and she agreed. I think she is pretty spot-on in hitting the observations that come a little too frequently for adoptive families. I read this . . .
summer photo dump
Thanks so much for all of you who weighed n on my post about summer regrets. It was a great reminder that I’m not alone in these feelings, and that the reality of the daily grind is true for every family, working moms or not. I put too much pressure on myself to have the perfect summer. Next year, I’m going to shoot for relaxing, unstructured summer – and if that means the kids jump around on the trampoline in costumes like they did for most of this summer, so be it. Ironically, I had also . . .
have you googled your child’s teacher?
Over at Babble this week, I’m talking about my (apparently controversial) practice of googling my kids’ teachers: My interest in looking people up online is not so much because I’m looking for dirt. In fact, I’m assuming I’m not going to find dirt. I just want to know more about these people who have been charged with shaping the minds of my own children. What are their likes? What are their dislikes? In Googling my son’s kindergarten teacher, I found out that he attended the same university . . .
on needing a summer do-over: the existential stress of "18 summers"
Last week was our first week back at school, and it was a rough one. I found myself feeling pretty down all week. For one, I think I’ve been in a kind of cheerleader denial over Jafta having to go to a separate school. I’ve tried to put on a happy face and seem fine with it for his sake, but the truth is that it’s bumming me out in a major way. It’s inconvenient, to say the least. . . it is literally impossible to pick him up on time given that the twins get out at the same time. . . .
let’s talk about the downton abbey season 3 trailer!
I was a little late to the Downton Abbey craze – but last spring Mark and I finally caved and watched the first season on Amazon.com, and we were immediately hooked. We ended up blowing through season 1 and season 2 within a matter of weeks. I think it is one of my favorite tv series (Arrested Development and Six Feet Under holding the top spots in my heart). The other day Nish posted a link to the season 3 trailer on facebook and I’ve been obsessing over it ever since. Is anyone else . . .
left mom, moderate mom, right dad, and a canadian . . .
Elizabeth and I have another episode of Right Mom/Left Mom coming up (this time, we are tackling the relationship between the evangelical church and the Republican party). I still need to upload that one, but in the meantime I thought I would share a chat I did last night for Yahoo! and ABCnews.com. They invited several of us from varying political perspectives to share our reactions live during the DNC. As you can see, we ended up having a lively discussion that sort of took . . .
what I want you to know: when you discover your son looking at porn
What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. This guest post is by an anonymous reader. What I want you to know is how you need to prepare yourself if you have a young son. What I want you to know is that he will not always be an adoring tiny man who loves to need and needs . . .
when mark became a mommy blogger
I am partnered with Fisher Price this year as an ambassador for their company. I'm a huge fan (have been, literally, all my life -heh) so I was thrilled when they asked me. As my daughter India once said, "God makes everything. Except for toys. They come from Fisher Price". Fisher Price invited all of their ambassadors on a trip to the gorgeous Azul Hotel in Cancun last month. Much as I wanted to go, the trip came on the heels of my Ethiopia trip and BlogHer, and I just didn't feel good . . .
the first day of school: the triumphs, the failures
Well, we survived the first day of school. But before I get to that, a couple of you asked what it was like when the school figured out that Kembe and India are not biologically twins, even though they share a birthday and last name. It was a funny moment. The big reveal happened prior to the first day of school, because I had to take in some paperwork last week and had the kids with me. The woman that I'd been speaking to over the phone, whom I'm assuming is the school secretary, saw us . . .
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