As the season quickly faded from fall to winter last year, my family had an unexpected visitor.  She came to our window one afternoon and my son was overjoyed to run out with his dad and scoop her up into a clear container.  It was a Praying Mantis, if you are wondering, and since I [...]

This is a recipe that I created when I was working in preschool.  There isn’t too many opportunities when you want to make playdough with the children, especially since our kitchen was upstairs and didn’t have enough room to sit and make it with 16 children.  This meant that teachers in my center often made [...]

Welcome to the final post that I will be making on the topic of morals and family values.  I’m sure you are more than ready to move onto a new topic and tomorrow I will have a great recipe for you to use at home.
But back to our topic on teaching morals and family values.  [...]

I’m taking a break from my apparent week long rant over teaching morals but please check in tomorrow and I will have it closed out.  Today, I have a guest blogger who I mentioned a few days ago.  Tanja Cilia is very excited to be contributing occasionally to That Parent Place and I hope everyone [...]

If you remember, yesterday I talked about things that we are teaching our children without even realizing it.  You can read that post here.
I guess I should say that I was actually ranting but you’ll forgive me my flaws.  I am after all human and as both a human and a parent I am allowed [...]

I just wanted to post a quick note to let you know that our first guest blogger, Tanja Cilia, will be joining us soon.  I hope to have several guest bloggers from time to time to offer you many different takes on being a parent and all the things that go hand in hand with parenting [...]

As Easter drew near, I realized that I had forgotten to pick up a few things, and ended up having to go grocery shopping on Saturday; the day before Easter!  I knew it was going to be a horrible day for shopping, but I gritted my teeth and headed out anyways.  I was completely right.  The store [...]

I was all set to write about that horrible stage in development when you need to have “The Talk.”  You know the one about the birds and the bees but then I was making dinner last night and my oldest son yelled out, “My tooth is really loose!”
Oh, no! I knew that this day was [...]

When my son was an infant I was constantly being asked, “So is he crawling yet?”  When I would say, “No, not yet,” I would get a concerned glance and then a, “Oh, don’t worry, he’ll crawl soon.” 
I wasn’t actually nervous but as each person reflected their own opinion on the matter I quickly began to stress [...]

Every year I have boiled those wonderful eggs so that I could spend a few hours coating myself in food dye just for the simple enjoyment of the experience.  For all children, egg dying is a wonderful experience and my children look forward to it every year.  My biggest problem with dying eggs was that I [...]