Respect
Taming the Excruciatingly Painful Ghosts Of Your Past
You wanna know what one of the most challenging aspects of growing up is? Not just for your children…but you yourself as well? It's simple to name but oooooooooh so difficult to embrace. And that, of course, are the: Excruciatingly painful ghosts of your past. And MamaBear ain't just talkin' 'bout the paranormal or the […]
Easy Tip To Ensure Your Child Always Remembers How Much You Believe In Them
Wow. Today MamaBear got blindsided by Honorable Boy #2's continuing lack of self-confidence…and turned on a dime to deal with it. Here's how. It all started when Honorable Boy #2 casually left his plastic strings scattered about on the kitchen floor. Now, it's true that MamaBear was *not* born with the neatness gene (compared to […]
Time-Outs Are Just Plain Stupid
Every time I hear a parent telling their child, "you're going to be in (gasp!) TIME OUT!", I cringe. What an incredibly stupid idea. I mean, just consider what exactly a time-out does. I think some parents have this blissful idea that children will think on their transgressions and realize quite how wrong their actions […]
The Easiest Way To Deal With Tantrums In Stores
Mama Bear is generally very good-natured indeed. Just ask her cubs. But….. There ARE something things guaranteed to really frost her petunias, y'know? If there's one thing that makes Mama Bear growl with extreme frustration and dismay, it's seeing the hordes of horribly-behaved little spoiled twits out there in retail stores who throw screaming tantrums […]
How YOU can beat compassion into your children via a figurative 2×4
ALERT! Hell….just froze over. No, MamaBear is *really* serious here. Hell didn't just freeze over, it ate the North Pole. And MB is so tickled pink by this, she could stand up and sing. Kinda like this. But she digresses. No, today, MamaBear's Honorable Son #1 (middle school child)….saw his brother was crying and instead […]