My husband and I have long encouraged our children to have their friends over to our house. It allows us to maintain a close relationship with our children as well as the opportunity to get to know their friends. We truly believe it's in a parents best interest to know the people who are really influencing your kids. We've been very lucky over the years, in that many of our children's friends are more like extended family now. Now that summer has arrived, we're gearing up for a house full of …
The One In Which I Hate Technology, Online Games and Electricity
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about young kids and online games. For the record, I don’t like them. Also for the record, my son plays them. But he does a lot of things I don’t enjoy seeing happen, like dirt-bike jumps and growing. I hate these games in general and in specific. I hate them the way our grandparents hated Elvis and socialism and people who wore their hat to the dinner table. These games make my skin crawl and I scream into my mouth when my son asks for his iPod. We …
