Science museums may be a necessary evil. The children get a chance to explore new ideas and concepts. They burn energy. And if you are able to get a membership to one, you can go to it nearly every day!
But they can be a drag. Especially if you are a hands-off kind of mom like […]
Like I said previously this week, I’ve been to a lot of science museums. Like, a lot. And I have had a chance to interact with some good ones and some not so great ones. I’ve mostly visited ones on the east coast, though I’m planning on branching out to some more mid-west ones later […]
Have you ever been exhausted by sheer boredom? That’s me at a science museum.
In all honesty, I’m not really a science-y person. I’m also not a mom that really gets in to “playing” with my children. That’s why I bring them to science museums. To make a mess at someone else’s place and play with […]
You know, sometimes you deserve it. You deserve that ice cream, and not even coffee flavored. You deserve to shell pistachios just for you. And eat them, without it feeling like a race. You deserve to enjoy a lobster. It can feel unattainable, right?
How To Eat In Peace
Drop a huge plateful of chicken nuggets on […]
After our recent lobster-in-front-of-kids eating experience, I’m loathe to eat delicious food in front of my kids. They have a long history of trying to ruin my eating experiences. I mean, many things are probably ok. They don’t give me much of a hard time if they come across me eating grilled chicken, or a […]
Our kids had SO much fun being surprised by Surprizamals!
Have you heard of this craze? Cute little balls and you open them and are surprised by the cute little stuffed animal inside. The children couldn’t get enough of opening them.
Surprizamals are the original stuffed animal toys created for children to be surprised by when they […]
Have you ever eaten a lobster in front of your kids before? As full-fledged lobster lovers, on a recent camping trip in Maine, we decided to take as much advantage of being in lobster land to eat it up. And that seemed like a good plan until we were sitting at the table, about to […]
There I was trying to control how my kids were having fun. Dictating these children’s games. And they were having none of that. Has this happened to you? It happens to me more than I care to admit.
I’ll tell them how to have fun, surely I’m the one that knows!?!? Sometimes I wonder if parenting […]
A recent camping trip and random game of Monkeys in the Mulch made me put a magnifying glass on games of my childhood. And they were pretty stupid. Do you remember these games and can you explain them?
Stupid Childhood Games
5: Running Bases – Here’s what I remember of this game. Running back and forth. I […]
On a recent camping trip, our children quickly disappeared into the biker gang that always emerges at campgrounds. You know the kind I’m talking about – mostly two-wheeled, with the occasional training wheeled members. They spent a lot of time at the nearby playground, deeply immersed in a game they made up. As we had […]
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