Never let your schooling interrupt your education.
A note from Jamie: You guys? It's Melissa's launch day, and her new book, Permission Granted, is GOLD! If you enjoyed Introverted Mom, you will ADORE her story-telling style. I could barely get through any chapter of it without crying (the good, "someone else also gets it?" kind of tears). It's the …
Patience, Kindness, and Vitamin D: Permission to trust your gutRead More
Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins Things I have said in the last twenty-four hours: "Yes, you can each have a popsicle." "Yes, you can play outside." "No, you may not have your own phone. Or iPad. Or computer." (Someday, surely! But today: no.) "Yes, you may bring a snack. No …
Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins I am trying to remember what life skills I had when I entered adulthood. I feel like it was a short list: how to boil pasta, how to run a washing machine, how to navigate the college parking lot for students who didn’t live on campus? That may have been about …
Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins Last Monday, I woke up to find a pool of water on our kitchen floor because our refrigerator had decided to stop refrigerating overnight. Instead it had thawed every frozen thing inside it, which is really the opposite of what you want a fridge-and-freezer to do. …
What to say to your kids on hard homeschooling daysRead More
Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins My youngest daughter is set on learning to use chopsticks this week. WHY she is set on this is less clear, given that her preferred foods are “peanut butter sandwiches” and “rice cakes with hummus.” But the idea appeared in her mind days ago, and it has not let …
