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This One’s for My FCC Ladies
I was having a great little chat with Famous Carol the other day about the state of family child care. She subs for several other women and shares my worry that home day care providers are a dying...
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Lest You Think a Mother’s Life is Not Busy…
Younger Son had a field trip last week and I chaperoned. This was my to-do list: Make sure my sub (Famous Carol) can come for day care Alert parents that Famous Carol is coming and they need to pick up...
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Whaddya Know, I Do Have a Teacher Voice
I had the opportunity to chaperone both of my boys’ field trips over the past couple of weeks and I was so thrilled. They actually wanted me to go so I figured I’d better take that chance while I still...
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Going Back to Basics
Everything comes at you so fast sometimes that you forget how to make it all work. We’re back to school, which is huge, plus constant soccer playing, plus work, plus trying to keep up with life – I...
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Jack Frost, I Salute You
I’m a member of several child care provider groups and every winter there’s lots of buzz about whether or not we stay open for snow days. I finally started closing for them a few years ago, and it’s...
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Help! I’m Surrounded by Children!
When I was 16 I swore to my boss at the ice cream shop that I would NEVER have kids. I hated them and everything to do with them. I’d had a series of failed babysitting gigs and was convinced that I...
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The Tyranny of Expectation
I recently wrote an article on school choice that I thought would earn me a good deal of backlash. Instead, what people responded to most strongly was the idea that we expect too much of our public...
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Feeling the Love
Sometimes in the middle of the insanity you can feel so much appreciation. Or maybe it seems even better than usual because you’re in a bad place. I needed it today, and boy did I ever get it. This is...
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Tax Time
This happens every year. I don’t do my taxes quarterly, as I’m supposed to, just because I’m lazy. So tax time is several hours’ worth of digging through a giant pile of receipts. It is a bittersweet...
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Feeling Contemplative on a Bike Ride
A day for me. As a home child care provider, let me stress to you how rarely this happens. I have worked for 12 years in my home, every day, all day. Think about it – when you’re a child care provider,...
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