There is not a school community untouched: kids not old enough to see Rated R movies or drive a car are sexting: taking videos and pics of their parts and sharing with one, or some. Then some more. Kids think they are flirting. Or sexy. Or competitive. Or hot. Or cool. Schools and police deem it criminal. Immune/oblivious parents adopt a mob mentality on social media to crucify the minors, the parents, and
Home alone – a little brother copes
People told me that if I could live through raising teenage girls, the boy would be nice to me. Those people lied. This kid of mine, the last one home, the boy who would crawl in bed and watch SportsCenter with us, squishing his 6ft frame between his incredible shrinking parents, has turned. He used to talk about sports and music and school and really, really dumb YouTube videos. Now he says
If you can’t say anything nice …
“Don’t repeat that. You hear me?” I add that necessary disclaimer to practically everything that comes out of my mouth within earshot of my teens. I spit out this disclaimer as fast as possible, or bear the consequences: whatever I said, in jest or anger or fun or just a mom-revelation that sends teenagers into snot blowing laughter, it doesn’t matter. It’s too late. It’s already been blasted out to
If You Give a Mom a Plunger
Time to make the donuts. After I unplug the toilet. It could be worse. It could always be worse. For instance, the 5 days with no internet access. Which means no work communication, or rather one-way communication with no response from me. Not smart. And no Facebook for teens which is apparently inhumane treatment. But I will not complain, as we have power and water and a town still standing,
Zero Tolerance on Zero Tolerance
This is not going to be funny, because I’m pissed. School restraints on children’s behavior are insane and I have a better idea: If you don’t like kids, don’t work in the schools. School budgets and zero tolerance and No Child Left Behind is an overwhelming obligation of a school district, but somewhere along the way, we forgot about the kids and families these rules effect. There is nothing black