Image Credit: Google Images For most of the day yesterday, my 4-year-old daughter complained that her eye was hurting. I inspected it several times, but failed to find anything in her eye that might be irritating it. By late afternoon she was crying and rubbing until half her face was red and puffy. I knew […] Read more…
Top 10 Bad Habits I Would Adopt If Every Day Was a Mental Health Day
My daughter had a fever over the weekend. The fever was gone by yesterday morning, but school policy requires children to be fever-free for 24 hours before returning. So when she still had a fever Sunday afternoon, I started making arrangements to take the next day off from work. I have to admit that I was kind of […] Read more…
The Optimism/Pessimism Spectrum
Pin It Every day on my lunch break at work I eat with the same woman. And every day I listen to this woman complain and nit pick and gossip and place blame and whine and whine and whine. She is one of the most pessimistic people I’ve ever been forced to spend time with. […] Read more…
Mom, Do You Know What S-E-X Spells?
“Today I don’t feel like doing anything. I just wanna lay in my bed.” You might recognize those lyrics from Bruno Mars’ “The Lazy Song.” I too recognized those words the other day as my newly turned 8-year-old son sang them at the kitchen table while doing his homework. “Nothing at all. Ooh hoo. Ooh […] Read more…
