The tomgirl in the left corner is me with two of my five brothers. Trouble started when my girlfriends started to find them attractive. I just saw them as rough-housing tricksters that loved farts, and dirty jokes.
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Here they are — my five older brothers. This new year I will share some funny stories about how we had fun, how they tortured me and what I learned from this wonderous group of men I grew up with. Story one...Joel spit on me.
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Last year I exhausted myself shopping. I asked my Mom for some advice. She gave it with a story and I remembered something I had forgotten.
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You don't want to know how much I spend on a tree or the size of it. I got my Christmas tree craze from my Mom. This year I am at it again....my tree is picked and in two weeks will go up. Creating traditions is part of the fun of raising kids and the season.
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You need ideas on how to make Christmas special on little funds...ask my Mom. Eleven kids and she made it as magical every time.
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I am a huge fan of dressing the part so why is it that I also say be comfy? Am I crazy? My Mom set the example by dressing the part and eventually I followed suit. Nevertheless she let us be teens...she let us be comfy and experiment.
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Episode one...a family with eleven kids during the holiday season. This month a story a week about holidays with a crazy gang... my family.
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Ever felt useless at night with your kids stuck on their phones and computers doing their homework. You're not! They need the pitter patter of your feet and trust me they want it.
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Happy Halloween. Eleven kids, one house and anyone over twelve not allowed on the night prowl. Share I did.
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That's her the year she arrived. Farmington Elementary changed that year and so did I.
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Do you trust your teen blindly? Maybe you don't trust at all but many parents think they need to trust their child to have a good relationship. How do you answer the question of when to trust?
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This blog post has been now turned into a book published by Amsterdam University Press.
Working with teens I get to talk about all kinds of fun stuff. Today as I was talking about sexting I thought back to my teen years. Would I have sent a sext to my teen crush to get his attention? Scary thought.
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