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Adjusting the Expectations For Success

We live in Alaska, and this year we experienced a record cold snap. I took the kids outside almost every day, but usually it was bundled up in jackets and snow pants in the stroller to go run errands or play at the gym.  Read more >

Adjusting the Expectations

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The Babysitter

The teenager laughed at Bunny and called it babyish and hurled the toy telephone across the room.  She was babysitting me and I didn't like her in the least.  I don't remember every disliking anybody before, but I knew that she was not a kind person and I did not want her anywhere near my room.But I was a six year old kid and she was the teenager in charge so I just stood quietly while she made fun of my most favorite stuffed animal and threw - threw! - my plastic phone.  Read more >

"Sister is Not a Fannafish"

"Sister is not a fannafish" kinda threw me off this morning.  What the heck was he talking about?   Little boy has been playing with rhymes and pretend words and interspersing them into his sentences but this sentence seemed like he was trying to talk in all seriousness.He was eating his breakfast, a bowl of shredded wheats, purchased for the low sugar content, but which were decidedly not a hit, when he looked up and made this cryptic statement.Luckily, thankfully, we can ask him to clarify."I don't understand.  Sister is not a ___?"    Read more >

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Elise Davis
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November 2011
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An educator and parent of two toddlers in Western Alaska who loves a good blizzard, who has carried around a guitar for two decades and still can't play, and who loves working with teenagers.

 

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