Denise Schipani / 4 Comments / grandparents, school /
As I do every few days, I checked Mean Moms Rule’s Amazon rankings and sales stats this morning (this is down from last year, when the book came out and I was checking multiple times per day!). I noticed that I had a new review, and I read it. This reader gave the book three […]
Denise Schipani / 12 Comments / family life, grandparents, Moms on moms, parenting /
Confession time: The whole mean mommy thing? I stole the idea. Stole. It. But it’s okay, because I stole it from my mother, the Original Mean Mommy: I think I may have written this in my first-ever post on this blog, but it’s an anecdote that bears repeating. When I was newly married but not […]
Denise Schipani / 9 Comments / family life, grandparents, vacation / airplane, family vacation, Florida, grandparents, vacation /
Regular readers may have noticed I didn’t post last week — that’s because we were in Florida for a bit over a week, visiting my parents, who some years ago joined the throng of Northerners who take off for southern climes in January and don’t come back until April or so, leaving their progeny with […]
Denise Schipani / 21 Comments / family life, grandparents / " Free-Range Kids, "Dear Amy, babysitting grandparents /
Yesterday, I was reading my friend Lenore Skenazy’s blog, Free Range Kids. She posted about a “Dear Amy” advice column that appeared in the paper — the writer of the question, a grandmother, had an interesting problem: She and her husband have been babysitting their grandson, overnight, twice a week, since he was born (right […]