Blog Profile / The Guilty Parent
| URL : | http://www.theguiltyparent.com | |
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| Filed Under: | Lifestyle / Parenting | |
| Posts on Regator: | 375 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.4 | |
| Archived Since: | March 5, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Let’s hear it for the boys (Dads)
My husband feels like days like Father’s Day and Mother’s Day are just ordinary days – likely because he ends up having work so we don’t do it up awesome like a lot of people do. But I have to say something (that may turn into a long something) about my hubby and my dad. [...]
My plea to the Android Operating System
“Where’s my smooch?” I ask my husband as he gets ready to walk out the door to work. He quickly turns back around and ever so lightly, LIGHTLY pecks my lips with his. “You’re serious. Was that even a kiss? I don’t even think I felt that.” I tell him half joking. “Sorry,” he says, [...]
Working the kinks out of your circular knitting needles
I did not come into this knitting thing easily. I paid for one class at my local yarn shop (class was free providing I bought the needles and yarn from the store) and the rest, give or take a few questions I’ve learned on my own or via YouTube. YouTube has been such a help [...]
Gearing up for Summer Reading 2013 with our new favorite reading app
We’ve approached the end of the school year and I’m confident that Peanut has reached the reading milestone that he needed to end the first grade with (insert happy dance and party in my head here). Seriously, you couldn’t ask for a happier mom right now. I listen to him read at night and I [...]
Meet Sylvia
If you don’t know by now our family has been down to one vehicle for a few months. It’s been a sad, frustrating state of things trying to shuffle kids from their activities and finagle schedules so everyone can be where they need to be. It’s one of those times when I’m glad that I [...]
Tuesday Tunes: Good Things, Spring, New Beginnings & Closing Time
I’m chatting with a friend, I promised myself that I’d get some things off of my personal to-do list but this seems so much more important right now. We’re talking about, well girl stuff. We’re doing what best girlfriends do when best girlfriends discuss matters of the heart life. While our conversation may seem silly [...]
Respect Your Community Enough not to Invite Shame or Embarrassment to it
I’ve been sick for probably two weeks now (a month if you ask my husband who also says that days just run together when he has to work long weeks and overtime) but while I was lying in bed this weekend I watched many blogging friends on a press junket to cover KFC’s new kids’ [...]
And then I hired my daughter
I’m planning for a huge year. HUGE I say. And in order to have the kind of year that I’m planning to have, I have to think big. I think I need employees. I can’t afford employees. I can barely afford marketing. But as I started this year, I knew something had to be done and [...]
Spill: Secrets from a Former Agency Executive & Spokesblogger Book Review
Since the start of her online presence Jessica Smith set herself apart from bloggers as a thought leader and influencer. With an eye for utilizing best practices in business and a keen understanding of the blogger community, Smith was able to align herself with well known brands, PR firms and even start ups. Her knowledge [...]
Big or small, all our days start with milk
In our house, we have more Big Days than not-so big days. One of my biggest hurdles as a mom is making sure that they’re ready for these days. What constitutes a Big Day in our house? Wow… where do I begin? Test days The first day of school The last day of school Driver’s [...]
Stay Together: Tuesday Tunes
I was raised on “oldies” music. Our radio dials were set to stations that represented my parents’ time. Popping in one of my dad’s 8 track tapes for the day’s music was as normal as a PB&J sandwich for lunch. So it shouldn’t be a big surprise that when I dreamt of getting married to [...]
A smile and a laugh to get me through: Not So Wordless Wednesday
The last few weeks have been really stressful for me. I’ve found myself snapping at the kids when I don’t mean to or shutting my door when I get home from my “in office” days and thus shutting out my family. I’m exhausted every night when I go to bed and because I can’t seem [...]
Complaining Doesn’t Mean Regretting
While reading some forums that I’m a member to over the weekend a post stuck out at me. Perhaps it was the tone of the post or perhaps it was the perceived tone of the post on my part but it bothered me nonetheless: “I get a kick out of all the people who spend [...]
Seeing Good is Looking Good: Firmoo.com Review
For the last year I’ve been wearing my contacts almost exclusively. If you’ve seen me in my glasses you’re one of a select few. Generally I put them on first thing in the morning and then again before I go to bed at the end of the day. Like a lot of things I own, [...]
Staying Healthy While at Work
image via ioiillusion This been my year for bugs, virus nasties, and every other kind of ick that’s floating in the air. I never used to get sick like this until I went back to a part time commuting job. Now I’m not blaming the office for every bug that I’ve gotten this cold [...]
Four Months Later – We’re Reading (and official “Book Love: Help Your Child Grow from Reluctant to Enthusiastic Reader” review)
Two months into this school year, I heard the most dreaded words that a parent can hear, “your child is behind in reading.” Okay, maybe those aren’t the most dreaded words but for me it was a blow to my parenting skills, my love of reading and everything we do here at home. I wrote [...]
Easy French Bread Pizza Recipe
One of my absolute favorite meals is French Bread Pizza. I used to buy Stouffer’s French Bread Pizza whenever I’d get the craving but upon hearing that my favorite frozen pizza brand contained trans fats, something I wasn’t aware of until ABC News broke the story last week I decided that it was just the [...]
And then everyone wanted to be her friend
Last weekend my daughter joined Facebook. Lord have mercy… I thought I was going to keel over when Bug joined the King of social networks. And for a little bit it felt like I was dying but mostly because he liked to break my rules a little. This time I’m fairly sure that my death [...]
My Favorite Muppet: Funny on Friday
I have an unhealthy obsession with a shrimp – okay, he’s not a shrimp. He is a KING PRAWN (okay). If you know the Muppets then you know I’m talking about Pepe who broke out and came into his own during the movie Muppets from Space. There’s just something all kinds of wrong and yet, [...]
Letter to me: A Tuesday Tunes
I wanted to participate in this week’s Tuesday Tunes but I didn’t have the right song. Then it hit me. Last week I was talking to Amanda (the lovely lady behind Tuesday Tunes) and I saw a writing prompt about writing a letter to your future self that I thought was perfect for how I [...]