Let Them Eat Dots

Mother’s Day Series – Mother’ Day Weekend

Some parents are all about control – controlling what kids wear, what they watch and what they eat. I have learned from experience that some amount of control is a good thing, after all, you might not want your 13 year-old daughter wearing a spiked dog collar, watching the adult Showtime feature film and eating nothing but mustard day and night so she can lose 10 pounds in one week. It is for this reason that parental control is necessary. My theory is that too much parental control can backfire and I have living proof of this.

I’ve always had sort of a loose idea of my kids’ food intake … and output. (Output only becomes important if you end up with a constipated three-year old who’s afraid to let go of his poopy because it’s a part of his body.)

From the Trenches of Parenthood – An Amusing View

Mother’s Day Series – Thursday

It’s hard to believe, but I once had trouble getting pregnant (even though I went on to have four babies.) But thanks to a dirty-haired OB/GYN doc and a special drug called Clomid, my infertility lasted only a few months. Exactly one year after I swallowed my first Clomid pill, I gave birth to a sweet baby girl.

I left the hospital with a baby, a car seat and one very sore va-jay-jay. I knew very little about parenting and