JANE STINE
PARENTING, TRAVEL, AND LITTLE JOYS
“It’s square-root-of-25 days until I turn fifty-divided-by-ten.” - Max
When you love numbers, 5 days until 5 is a big deal. Looking at a lunch of homemade pizza and chocolate chip cookies:
Max: Mom, what’s your job? Me: I help people study to be veterinarians. Max: Oh, good. So it’s not cooking. One time I was directing an 8th grade musical and this one mom offered to just hang out and help keep the kids in line and I’m like yes great. So this one kid like won’t shut up and then Tyrone’s mom stands up from the back row of the darkened auditorium in her leather trench coat and calmly but loudly goes, “I know where you live. And I know where your mother lives. And Jesus knows where you both live.” And then all the kids were awesome.
This was over a decade ago but may we all go into this week with a real Tyrone’s-mom energy. Both for your kids and for you. Self-regulation is the key to everything. If you want to read my favorite parenting book, it's Self Reg.
Max: Does the 52nd president of the United States have to know capital and lower-case?
Me: I sure hope so. Max: *sigh* Then we better get to work. |
Hi, I'm Jane."Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." Said Thoreau. But he hung out in the woods and jail. Archives
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