Right Message, Wrong Messenger “Pick you up from school?!? When I was your age, nobody picked me up from school. I had to take two city buses, wait in the cold for a transfer, and sit in traffic for an hour to get home from school.” –Overheard at the Kaplan kitchen table around 7:30 a.m....Read More
What do you call a beverage you grab to drink in the car, on the way to an appointment? “Route beer.” Makes sense to me . . . P.S.: That would be my 10 year-old daughter’s term (and preferred spelling in a post-it note, instructing me to bring a snack and drink with when I...Read More
Question #2: And Exactly How Much Was That?? It turns out son #2 doesn’t owe anyone anything. What he meant to say was, “I got there fine” (as in, “I arrived safely”). The back story: he and a friend biked to school for the first time the other morning, and was under strict instructions to...Read More
“Schmutz Face” I was trying to get my 10 year-old to clean up his face before dropping him off at a play date this morning. Clearly, it bothered me much more than him. As in, “not at all.” “I’ll just say it’s a cut,” he told me matter-of-factly (and no, that didn’t fly with me).Read More
