Archive for January, 2012
Rachel Vidoni: It Costs WHAT? The High Price Of Pain Relief..
3Last night my youngest daughter was awake intermittently from 11:30 p.m. on screaming and crying because her ear hurt. Since she was sleeping with me, I piggy-backed Tylenol and Motrin all night, getting some sleep in the rare hours where the medication overlapped. We are now out of Tylenol.
The doctor confirmed today what I had known, that she has a terrible ear infection—I think his exact words were, “Her ear looks like hamburger.” Not a pleasant visual, but at least I know I’m not More >
Caption Contest: Show Me The Funny!
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So did you LOL all month? Have you been waiting to find out who is going to be laughing all the way to the advertisers with a gift card? Let’s take one last look at the pic again and see just what got the ball rolling.
And the winners are:
Our second runner-up is Dawn B with her entry:
“…and then my child said “I can’t wait until I can move out and be on my own!!!”.”
The first runner-up is Shasha with her entry:
“That’s hilarious, you think it was ME who cleaned the house?”
And More >
Ask Rene: I Think I’m In Love With My Best Friend
3Dear Rene:
I’m in a situation that I’m not quite sure how to get out of. I just turned 22-years-old and am engaged to my boyfriend of four years. I love Tom very much as he saved me from an abusive situation with my stepfather. So what’s the problem? I think I’m in love with my best friend Leslie.
Leslie and I have known each other and been close since the second grade. About three weeks ago after a night of partying, she and I ended up in my dorm room and before we knew what was happening, More >
Reframing The Mundane: The Car As A Communication Aide
8Have you ever tried talking to a teenager? No I’m serious. And when I say talk to, what I mean is have a conversation with. Mind you, this is totally different from talking down or giving orders or instruction to. This is a two-sided conversation, as in, you speak and they respond in more than mono-syllabic fashion. In the event you have not, let me warn you now, it’s friggin’ hard.
I feel uniquely qualified to talk about this because as the mother of two teens, I’m quite familiar with the More >
The GEM Debate: Is THIS How To Teach Your Child A Lesson?
11By Ella Rucker:
What parent of a bussed child hasn’t had the extreme pleasure of getting said child ready for the school bus only to have that child run back in the house, wide-eyed and yelling, “I missed the bus!”? After you run to the door to see if you can’t somehow catch that big, yellow, betrayer, you turn on your heels, count to ten, and frantically think, “Now what?!”
That’s what happens in my house, and it is what I imagine happened in the house of the mother in this article. She More >
Our Story Begins: Are You A Mother Or A Martyr?
5At the beginning of 2001 I packed up my whole family, wife, two kids, all of us and moved to a suburb of Fort Worth, Texas. I, little old Dave, the young pup photographer and field producer who worked in Omaha, Nebraska had gotten a job in a top-ten market. (In fact, it is at this particular station that I met Rene Syler, though I’m sure we communicate more now than we ever did in the same city!) My wife, Andrea, was proud of me. My kids were sad to leave where they were born but in the More >
