Journeyer’s Chronicles

Today The Engineer’s school is having a curriculum day. I completely forgot about it until dinner last night, even though I had it written on our calendar. Cinderella will be at preschool until after lunch, but The Little Mermaid will be home as well. My plans for the day have been thrown [...]

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Do you ever wonder how your kids turned out to be so different? Today is The Engineers 7th birthday. After a number of false starts during the night, we let him get up at 5:45 this morning to begin his celebrations. Of course, he was most interested in [...]

I initially saw Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool, by Hal Edward Runkel, a licensed marriage and family therapist and relationship coach, in a New York Times bestseller list. I passed over the book at first, as I don’t read a lot of parenting books. I [...]