I dropped my camera, so you will have to be content with slightly older pictures. I read a lot of really terrible child-rearing advice out there, and some good advice too, but one thing I notice about most advice is that it’s not very particular or specific when it’s most well meant. “Establish a home… Read More »
Ask Auntie Leila: My three-year-old won’t nap!
{I am including pictures of my garden to go along with this post. Ignore the fact that the lawn needs to be mown and the weeding hasn’t been done! I’m hoping that this discussion will affirm for you that perfection — having things go right — isn’t the answer.} Dear Auntie Leila, I have a… Read More »
Confine and corral. Kids and dirt. Part I.
You are all so cute and sweet. I mean about the “unprofitable servant” love-bomb thing. I really don’t think it’s the end of the world if you ask everyone to give you strokes…we all do it and I guess it’s just part of the human condition, or why would Our Lord be addressing it? I… Read More »
Ask Auntie Leila: How do I educate my children?
It’s a leetle late for me to be offering you homeschooling advice, I know. Yet, even with September freshness — those new books, that fantastic curriculum, those sharp pencils — there might be room for me to throw in my two cents. Honestly, I tried to talk about this in June. But who wants to… Read More »
Ask Auntie Leila: "I don’t want to be ‘yelling, screaming, crazy mom.’ "
I’m checking in three days before the wedding for an emergency session of Ask Auntie Leila. You know, I guess the people who just won’t discipline their children aren’t going to be the ones to ask advice. Too bad, because I really feel like when I see them at the store I’d like to give… Read More »