Archive for the ‘growing up’ Category
8
Nov
Posted by joz1234 in Bert, discipline, growing up, life's lessons, mommies, moms, parenting, silly stuff kids do, teaching, things I like a lot. Tagged: discipline, disciplining children, kindergarten, parenting, parenting a kindergartener, remorse, when kids get in trouble at school. 5 Comments
Often we doubt how we might be doing as a parent. I find myself, that I use trial and error on many of the events that come my way. The boys tend to throw me curve balls, and I often feel like I strike out. There’s definitely not an adequate playbook out there.
Because of all [...]
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3
Nov
Posted by joz1234 in growing up, life's lessons, parenting. Tagged: dealing with hurt, forgiveness, lessons for kids. 4 Comments
Forgiveness is something that I feel I learned more about well into my 20’s. It’s not something that I was taught about, not at any length. I always thought that forgiveness was something you did to let the other person off the hook. Understandably, I did not like the idea of forgiving someone. It wasn’t [...]
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1
Nov
Posted by joz1234 in Bert, growing up, humour, mommies, moms, parenting, silly stuff I see, silly stuff kids do. Tagged: funny stuff kids say, funny things kids say, kids, kids antics, kids say the funniest things. 4 Comments
My oldest son continues to amaze me each and every day. He definitely is quick and witty like his father. I, unfortunately, cannot claim that this part of him is inherited from me.
Last night, while Trick or Treating at our Mall, a lady responded to Bert’s “Trick or Treat,” by saying “Trick! I want [...]
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31
Oct
Posted by joz1234 in Bert, Ernie, Nintendo Wii, discipline, drawing, growing up, housecleaning, humour, medical training, fellowships, relocating, residency, mommies, moms, my crafts, parenting, stuff we do together, things I like a lot, toddlers. Tagged: around the house, art, artwork, Bert, bert and ernie, blog break, bringing up kids, children, diet and fitness, disciplining children, eating healthy with kids, family life, fitness, indpendent children, windows antivirus pro. 2 Comments
Wow! It’s certainly been a while since I was on here actively posting. My life has been busy with kids and work, and tutoring at the Elementary nearby. I needed a “break” from blogging, so I took it. I’m looking forward to posting more here.
Some things that have happened during my break?
-Got more leverage…bought [...]
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29
Sep
Posted by joz1234 in discipline, growing up, life's lessons, manners. Tagged: critiquing my own personality, listening, personality. 6 Comments
I had an epiphany last night.
It’s one you probably already noticed. Sometimes I am a slow learner, alright?
I have challenged myself to be more “modest.” I don’t know if that describes exactly what I am shooting for, so let me describe what I want to accomplish.
not be as loud
not have an opinion on everything
not have [...]
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1
Sep
Posted by joz1234 in Bert, Mean Mommy, Mean Mommy Chronicles, birthday, growing up, humour, life's lessons, mommies, moms, teaching, things I like a lot. Tagged: withholding toys, punishment, nintendo ds lite, mario kart. 10 Comments
Bert recently received a Nintendo DS lite for his 5th birthday. At first I was really hesitant because he’s 5, and that’s an expensive toy. I tried to convince my husband that it was a bad idea. Bert got a taste of the Nintendo DS at our workout facility. It seems that all the boys [...]
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26
Aug
Posted by joz1234 in Bert, growing up, housecleaning, mommies, moms, stuff we do together, teaching, wahm. Tagged: kids, kids chores, household chores, housecleaning, cleaning, kids helping with housework, housework, chores, cleaning up, kids housecleaning. 5 Comments
My oldest, Bert is still at an age where he “enjoys” helping Mommy. He wants to play with me all the time and sometimes I really don’t want to, so he accepts cleaning with me as playtime. This works for me because I hate cleaning and am not the greatest player of 5 year old [...]
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22
Aug
Posted by joz1234 in Bert, Ernie, brothers, family, growing up, housecleaning, life's lessons, mommies, moms, parenting, siblings, stuff we do together, teaching, toddlers. Tagged: kids, mommy, playing, mommies, playing with your kids, play. 6 Comments
I have distinct memories of my mother while growing up. I remember her reading, crocheting, quilting, cleaning, bowling or playing softball. She was always present, and always there for me. I don’t have many memories of playing with her though. I was an only child, so I learned pretty early on that I had to [...]
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12
Aug
Posted by joz1234 in Bert, Ernie, growing up, mommies, moms, parenting, sibling rivalry, siblings, silly stuff kids do, toddlers. Tagged: annoying kids, Bert, Ernie, nap time, school. 4 Comments
Is school in yet? The last time I spoke of annoying kids, it was in reference to my older son, Bert, who will be 5 in exactly a week. I took MTAE’s advice which was: “Four year olds want attention…bad attention is still attention. Ignoring works best. If, by 38, they don’t stop with the [...]
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4
Aug
Posted by joz1234 in Bert, Mean Mommy, Mean Mommy Chronicles, discipline, growing up, humour, mommies, moms, silly stuff kids do, teaching. Tagged: Mean Mommy, Mean Mommy Chronicles, peeing in pants, temper tantrums, timeout. 6 Comments
The other day my husband and I were in our living room watching TV when Bert came to us with a troubled look on his face. We have a rule in our house. The rule is that Mommy has bought you at least a dozen pair of underwear. If you get your undies wet, and [...]
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29
Jul
Posted by joz1234 in Bert, Ernie, discipline, growing up, life's lessons, mommies, moms, stuff we do together, things I like a lot. Tagged: bert and ernie, praising your child, reasoning with your child. 2 Comments
Sometimes with my kids I jump from nagger to yeller so quickly, that asking nicely falls through the cracks. Most of this most likely stems from being the main disciplinarian of our kids and also feeling like a single parent much of the time. My husband is wonderful when he is home, but he does [...]
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28
Jul
Posted by joz1234 in Bert, Ernie, Mean Mommy, brothers, discipline, family, growing up, life's lessons, mommies, moms, siblings, stuff we do together. Tagged: temper tantrums, Mean Mommy, Sesame street, mommy timeout, bert and ernie, timeout. 3 Comments
Do you ever get that anxious feeling…
You know, the one that makes you feel as though you have this ugly green monster with googly eyes in you?
Yesterday, for some reason…I felt this way.
It couldn’t have been the fact that my boys had been fighting and yelling and screaming most of the day.
It couldn’t [...]
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27
Jul
Posted by joz1234 in Bert, Ernie, Mean Mommy, Mean Mommy Chronicles, Nature walks, discipline, family, growing up, home, humour, life's lessons, mommies, moms, siblings, toddlers. Tagged: Mean Mommy Chronicles, Mean Mommy, Nature walks, No, sanity. 6 Comments
In this Mean Mommy episode, Bert and Ernie learn are told that it is not a good idea to jump on Mommy’s couches… Whether they learned anything or not remains to be seen.
07/26/2009
“Get off the couches, please. We don’t jump on the couches,” Mean Mommy said as she walked from the living room into her [...]
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21
Jul
Posted by joz1234 in Bert, Big Brother, Ernie, brothers, family, growing up, humour, life's lessons, mommies, moms, sibling rivalry, silly stuff kids do, toddlers. Tagged: hitting brother, mommy going crazy, pestering brother, sibling rivalry, sitting on brother. 4 Comments
Is there a Big Brother handbook somewhere out there written in pictures that teaches the art of pestering your baby brother? My son has obviously been to the library without me. Ernie may go crazy from being bothered…and Mommy may go crazy from hearing Ernie’s squeals and cries as Bert bothers him some more.
Some [...]
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21
Jul
Posted by joz1234 in Bert, Ernie, brothers, family, growing up, mommies, moms, siblings, stuff we do together, teaching, toddlers. Tagged: bedtime routine, fun with kids, learning from music, singing, singing to kids, spelling. Leave a Comment
Every night, when I put my boys to sleep, I sing them a silly song.
“Your my Taco, Your my Taco
T-A-C-O
Your my Taco,
I put cheese on you
and then I take a big bite
da-da-da!”
They love it! When I tuck them in, I ask them what they want to be (Taco, enchilada, burrito, etc)…and what they want [...]
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