Single Parent Travel

Well, OK so it is not really “beer’ pong, but my 14 year old was at a friend’s house over the long weekend and she was telling me how she and her friend soundly kicked the collective butts of two other friends in “soda pong.” OK, it is not beer and at 14 that is [...]

To coin a popular teenage phrase, WTF? Can someone please try and explain what the triggers are that will turn a teenage girl from a funny, engaging, friend, into an evil creature that could not have been born–but spawned? This past weekend, was a perfectly good example. The local school district sponsored a Career Fair [...]

I have one kid driving on his own. I have another one learning. I am nervous. When I was growing up, I needed to worry if the radio was too loud in the car. We did not have car phones, cell phones, or smart phones. Texting was not even a word. But today it is [...]

Happy New Year to everyone!  Last night, a group of us went out to celebrate the New Year complete with free cab rides back home! We all have kids of varying ages and the topic came up about drinking–over a beer of course!  In the last post, a good point was made to be neither [...]

Right now, I am in in very frightening position of having three teenagers. My son is 19, driving on his own , going to college and has a job. My daughter is 16 and driving under a permit, and my youngest is 13. Since they were little, I have always talked to them about drugs [...]

My son has been driving for a while. He is a good driver–after all I taught him everything he knows. Yesterday, I sent him on some errands for me and on his way home the unthinkable happened. My son, the invincible one ran into the back of another car! He called me in a panic [...]

I am sure everyone has heard about the rash of senseless suicides over the past few weeks. My son is starting college this year and all of us parents are cautiously optimistic that our kids have been brought up to make the right decisions.  Life holds no guarantees, but we hope and pray.  A friend [...]

Well, I may be a bit jaded and cynical myself, but when it hits my kids, I feel awful. My son has his first “real” girlfriend and things are going well (apparently) and then out of the blue, two days after their second prom–the dreaded text message (yes, you read that right) “I think we [...]

OK, I own my own tuxedo and the last time I rented one was in 1990 when I got married. Boy what a difference 20 years makes! I told my son that I would cover the cost of renting his tux for the two (yes, count em two) proms he was attending with his girlfriend.  [...]

Being male, for all of my life I never really “got” the whole maternal instinct thing. Don’t get me wrong, I love my kids and would go to the ends of the earth to protect them and to give them any opportunity I could. But I have always heard that a “mother’s love” was so [...]