Yesterday was language development day. After a successful attempt at getting the Snapper dressed without a fuss–victory is mine!–taking a stroller ride to KMart for laundry detergent, and some wonderful freeplay, we played with a stack of letter cards together. They’re the kind with the letter and some sort of representative object. We just went [...]
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Friday Preschool at Home; the Garden
Posted in Parenting, Planet Sster, Teaching, The Prairie, The Snapper on May 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Art Day, with Tantrums
Posted in Parenting, The Snapper on April 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
First it was the battle over changing his pull-up before nursing; then over helping make pancakes (he declared the dry ingredients he was stirring “mine,” screaming); what to have for lunch; what to have for snacks; not going onto every porch of every house we passed; and a dozen other little things.
BUT the schedule, for [...]
Parenting Revamp
Posted in Parenting, The Snapper on April 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The last ten months of life with the Snapper have been extremely trying. Last June, just as we were being hit by the flood, he hit 18 months, or rather 18 months hit us. He began tantruming hard, daily, hitting and biting, and being oppositional to most transitions and parental directions. That summer I spent [...]
Wait…you mean I have to PARENT?
Posted in Parenting, The Snapper on March 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In two and a half minutes, no matter how well you structure my environment, I will scream for approximately five minutes after my bath. I love water and it is not fair that you will not let me stay in the bathtub all night and I don’t care if my lips turn blue. So there.
When [...]
A Reminder, Just for Me.
Posted in Planet Sster, The Snapper on March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thanks, Paragraphein.
From: What Privileges Do You Have?
-based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University.
(If you participate in this blog game, they ask that you PLEASE acknowledge their copyright.)Directions: Bold the statements that apply to you.
1. Father went [...]
Fifteen Months
Posted in Parenting, The Snapper on February 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
nearly.
Why is it that when YOUR kid starts doing something normal, something that all kids do around that age, it feels like this amazing, spectacular accomplishment, like it is an astounding feat of humanity? Because that’s how I feel every single time the Snapper does something new. Now the new things come daily: using a [...]
Two Days
Posted in Dazed and Confused; or, Living Well with ADD, Dissertating, Parenting, Planet Sster, The Snapper, The guys on February 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Two days working at the group home. Two days dissertating. Two days of homemaking and childcare.
One day called “Family Day” for me to be exhausted and for Attic Man, who has been caring for the Snapper all weekend, to race to school to catch up on work.
I can’t tell whether it’s ‘balanced’ or crazy, this [...]
Tuesdays and Thursdays
Posted in Dissertating, Reading, The Snapper, Writing on January 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
are my new favorite days. Look, I like being home with the Snapper and it’s its own challenge, but it’s not particularly intellectual for me. Tuesdays and Thursdays he is going to daycare full days and it is awesome. I come in the middle of the day to nurse him down for [...]
And We’re Back!
Posted in Adoption, Parenting, Planet Sster, The Snapper on January 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Ah…cup of tea, napping baby toddler (sigh). I may get to take a shower before noon! Score!
1. The Snapper is taking up two of our better habits, reading and music, and this is making us very, very happy. Just this week he has begun to bring me books to read! Thus [...]
birthday
Posted in The Snapper on November 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
