by tmom-dfw26 | Sep 13, 2026 | Encouragement from the Edge
Rock Stars, can I tell you something I’ve learned after 25 years of parenting? None of us have this completely figured out. Not the Mom with the perfectly behaved children at church. Not the Mom whose house somehow looks like nobody...
by tmom-dfw26 | Sep 12, 2026 | Blended Parenting
Yesterday marked 25 years since September 11, 2001. Like so many people, it had me thinking about where we were that day and just how much life has happened since. Technology Man and I ended up pulling out old photo albums. Remember those? Actual photographs....
by tmom-dfw26 | Sep 11, 2026 | Educated Parenting
Sometimes the most loving thing a parent can do is let a child struggle. When your children are little, fixing things is practically your full-time job. They’re hungry? Feed them. They fall? Pick them up. They lose something? Help them find it. They have a...
by tmom-dfw26 | Sep 10, 2026 | In My Opinion...
When my children were little, I spent an awful lot of time trying to raise good kids. Say please. Say thank you. Clean your room. Do your homework. Don’t hit your brother. Put that...
by tmom-dfw26 | Sep 10, 2026 | Stay at Home Mom
Spoiler alert: I still don’t know. For 25 years, I was a stay-at-home mom. When we made that decision all those years ago, I believed pretty strongly that having a parent at home would make a difference for our children. I thought being there after school,...
