Parenting Tip of the Day:

Wait to clean out the carseat until the food crumbs and various liquids have solidified into neat little petrified chunks. Bonus: granola bars for the kiddos! #spendthrift!

Parenting Tip of the Day:

When you ask your child, “Isn’t this party the funnest?” and she says no, don’t worry that she’s not enjoying herself. She’s just waiting to correct you: “The most fun, Mama. Most fun”

Parenting Tip of the Day:

Learn to recognize affection in all its forms:

“Mama, I love you. I love you just as much as I love the cats.”

Parenting Tip of the Day:

Let go of trying to figure out if you are listening to Rebecca Black’s Friday ironically or in earnest, and just blame the child for making you hear it one. More. Time.

Parenting Tip of the Day:

Probably any argument where your comeback is, “Oh yeah? Well you’re five years old!” is not an argument you are winning.

Parenting Tip of the Day:

Redefine what it means to nap alone.

Parenting Tip of the Day

It may seem like a good idea, but do not teach your children logic skills:

Me: Please eat more eggs. You eat two eggs with your dad.

Child: That’s ’cause he doesn’t burn them!!

Parenting Tip of the Day:

Halloween edition!
Leave your pumpkin out long enough, and someone else will carve it for you! Time-saving and eco-friendly!

Parenting Tip of the Day

The time you save when your child gets ready quickly because she’s pretending to be in a movie showing people how to get ready might be negated when she decides the viewer is pausing it once every minute, and you and she have to freeze to account for this.

Parenting Tip of the Day:

Painting the cats’ nails may seem like a good idea, but…