Posts by AmyB

I am wondering if anybody has ever tried pasting together two 1/2 day Kindergarten programs to make 1 full-day Kindergarten, and if so, did it work? My 5 yo enters Kindergarten in the Fall. Her sister goes to the local public school...

I have never had a dishwasher. Before my husband up and left it made me very, very angry that he was perfectly happy to eat but he never, ever, not once that I can remember ever did the dishes EVEN AFTER I explained to him that the...

Sports. By which I mean physical activity in general. I'm 25 lbs overweight and it would just melt right off if I could get back to my pre-pregnancy activity level.

Here's how I fix pumpkin for pie. Slice the pumpkin open and scoop out the seeds. cut it up into big chunks skin and all and boil it until it gets soft. let it cool a bit. If the skin doesn't come right off, you can easily get it...

It's a scam. Try this site to find legit poetry contests: http://www.pw.org/

Three months ago my depressed spouse told me that any attempt to feel better would be "medicalizing" his feelings and he was convinced that his misery was all my fault so in his mind there was no hope that counceling or meds...

It depends on the teenager, I suppose, but one of the best memoirs I have ever read is "Naturalist" by Edward O Wilson. I think a teenager might especially like the part about how his boyhood influenced him to study ants,...

No way would I waste vacation time on Disneyland. I just took my girls (6 and 3 yo) camping for the weekend. We didn't take any toys at all, and pretty soon they were using sticks for horses, playing "house" in the tent,...

Bill Gates, definitely

I do the same thing. I see that "made in China" label and decide I just don't need whatever it is that bad (In my book Chinese products are just too strongly associated with environmental destruction and human rights...