parenting advice – Wine and Cheese (Doodles)

A Decade in the Trenches: 10 Things I’ve Learned in 10 Years as a Parent

Not that long ago, we celebrated my son’s tenth birthday. A milestone for him and another notch on the parenting belt for me. You have to trust me when I say there were days when I didn’t think either one of us would make it here. There was the dramatic, traumatic delivery and subsequent two weeks…

Straight from the Sandbox–7 Lessons to Live By

I can say with honesty, without crossing my fingers behind my back, that I have never told my children to make sure they have on clean underwear in case they are in an accident. I have never told them they’ll get square eyes from sitting too close to the television set or that they’ll end…