Well, we’re in the thick of the summer, Mamas. I hope you’re having fun and checking items off the Summer Bucket List daily! But with August beginning, most of us (parents and kids alike) are already thinking about the upcoming school year. And if you’re like me and have kids like mine, you’re also worrying about how to make the… Read More
At some point recently, you’ve looked at your spouse and said, “I really think Susie needs help at school. Do we need to get her tested or something?” And you know the school can do some testing and will have to in order to provide her with any special help. Maybe you’ve already requested they look at her or maybe… Read More
Go to any bookstore or your library and you’ll find shelves FULL of early chapter books and series which are geared towards girls. You’ll have to look a lot harder to find books which fill that void between picture books and no pictures at all for boys. The Frank Einstein series, by Jon Scieszka, happily fits right into this niche… Read More
Rebe Reads, Jr. posts are meant to help parents find good, entertaining books for our boys that aren’t all about farts! (Heaven help the mamas of boys…) Given that I’m a voracious reader, I definitely want my guys to enjoy picking up a good book and so we read to them nearly every night. But both my sons, ages 8… Read More
My heart is shattered. And yet, every time I think it can’t get any worse, that it can’t break anymore…it fractures again into even tinier pieces. My whole life right now revolves around helping my youngest through the day. The whole family walks around on anxious eggshells, worried and scared and watching…watching…waiting for the first sign that an explosion is… Read More