First day back after a week of Spring Break sleeping late and the Tweens were awfully quiet today. I mean, this is a group that is usually screaming out answers to Mad Libs or grabbing my phone to play some alien destruction game. Also loudly. But going from sleeping late to getting up at the [...]
The small school auditorium holds barely 100 people and not all the chairs were full. Unlike the Oscars, there were no seat-fillers making sure the event looked well-attended. The amateur emcee made nearly inappropriate jokes in her opening remarks, but luckily we all let them slide. We were there to celebrate our kids. My son’s [...]
If you’re in Los Angeles or will be over the next few weekends, I urge you to take your kids to see Brilliance at the Geffen Playhouse. Brilliance is a production of the Geffen Playhouse’s Story Pirates, and seeks to make the story of Marie Curie accessible to kids. Sure, she may have been the first [...]
Zuzee, a new creative photo design & sharing site for Tween girls, has launched. Zuzee was designed for the Tween girl who likes to express herself creatively and be social with her friends as well. There are dozens of designs to choose from and it’s super easy to customize anything with their drag and drop, [...]
I was a co-host of one of the Tween Academy live blog chats with Rosalind Wiseman on the Motherhood yesterday and it was a really great discussion about Tweens and Self-Esteem. I hope you got a chance to join us, but if you didn’t, you can click through to the recap. Plus check it out – [...]
I have two Tween boys and I love them to pieces. I am feeling very much out of my element, however, as we all start wading into the Tween issues, so I am happy for any chance to talk to other Moms about how they’re navigating Life with Tweens. Enter The Motherhood. They are hosting [...]
Being the mother of a Tween boy was not what I imagined it would be when I thought about having kids. I pretty much imagined holding my baby in a rocking chair and cuddling with him. That was about as far as I got. Maybe I saw a soccer team in my future where I [...]
My once upon a time baby boy has turned 12 and it’s serious business these days. He has grown 3 inches so far this year and at that rate he’ll be taller than me by Christmas. He’s got a little bit of mustache fuzz on his upper lip, which is astonishing to me and embarrassing [...]
My eldest son just finished 6th grade and that isn’t what knocked me for a loop. It was the fact that he’s about to be 12. Which means I’ve been a mom for over a decade. And so when I start thinking about when he was a baby and how different my life was at [...]
I drive a carpool with a neighbor family and between us we have 4 boys, ranging in age from 14 to 7. Every day the carpool has its own energy and life and I feel like I need to share that with the world. The morning shift, which I drive every other week, tends to [...]