Archive Tag: grandparents

How To Make A Christmas List

Dec 4, 2012

“Can you help me make my Christmas list?” he asks. He’s asked a few times now. I remind him again that it’s not his birthday and that…he interrupts. “I know.” He’s angry. I lecture instead of listen. “No, you don’t know. I want you to sit down at the table… Read More

The Kid Whisperer Meets S

Jul 25, 2011

My mom was the director of a daycare center for 27 years. Then she retired. For something like a week. Maybe two. And went back to work as a teacher’s aid in a public school classroom, loving on kids with various mental and physical setbacks all day. Ask her any… Read More