This last May, on the way to school one day, my oldest was deep in sharing his future business plans with me, ones involving a video game design empire. Midway through his description of his employee incentives program, Baby-Girl interrupted from the back seat. “I’ve lived for a whole decade!†I acknowledged the milestone. My […]
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Coffee with Christine: My Current First Draft Lifestyle
Grab your java while I jabber. For starters, have you all seen this week’s Facebook post with a picture of a dog lying limply on the floor? It reads, “I can’t adult today. Please don’t make me adult today.†I’m by nature a tangential thinker, so of course my mind went to a place where […]
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Things High Schoolers Never Say
We’re studying the play version of The Diary of Anne Frank in seventh grade right now, and yesterday, we were discussing the inconveniences of hiding for your life beyond the whole obvious “you could die†thing. We talked about how Anne’s family and the Van Daans, who spent over two years hiding in some small […]
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As the Island Family Turns: Another Update
It’s been quite the week, y’all. I’d tell you about it, but frankly most parts wouldn’t make for a good post, and just thinking about it makes me tired. Mostly, I’m just glad it’s over, and I’m only really mentioning it at all so that you can be a little more forgiving of what will […]
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Out of the Mouths of Kindergartners
Among the graduating kindergarten clan at the small people’s school, there’s a fierce rumor going around about first grade and how the first grade teachers up the discipline game a little. One day after school, my daughter came home brimming with information meticulously gleaned during recess that day. “Mommy, if you are naughty and get […]
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Educating a Kindergartener
Recently, my daughter came home from kindergarten and launched into an explanation of the difference between fiction and nonfiction. I was duly impressed when she then provided several examples of both. I smiled to myself, and frankly, I had a little moment where I privately extolled the virtues of a good education. I praised her […]