At bedtime, I have to try to be patient with getting my son to be calm enough to go to sleep. With his ADHD, he’s pretty restless when it’s time to get calm. He can’t fall asleep until he does, and it doesn’t help that he’ll ask to play some more or watch a movie.…
Category: parenthood is a rollercoaster
(note: I’ve challenged myself to only devote 10 minutes to writing this post, because I edit too much and I’m trying to break the habit) I love video games, but sometimes I wish they didn’t exist. In our house, we’ve always had limits. The kids generally have 15 minutes a week of video games, but…
This is what I want to tell my son: You can’t be friends with that kid! I do not want to control who he can and can’t befriend, so I held my tongue, briefly. After a little thought, I said, “I want you to know, I don’t approve of the friendship you have with him…
As I was watching my wife goof around with my laughing kids this morning, I was thinking about how my wife and I are raising them, and how they’re not just our kids, but someone’s future family members. Several someones, or many someones, really. Somewhere out there, there just might be people that are going…