By Kelly on September 2, 2016 If you’re living in the 21 st century (check.), have kids (check.) and engage with others on any of the various social media platforms (check.), this is a hot topic. It’s not an issue that would have dictated a discussion a decade ago, but today with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat….oh heck yes! I’m talking about sharing stories and pictures of our beloved children on social media. I’ve written about the cost of living life on-line in a previous blog, but this blog is dedicated to our kids and what we share about them. We are just finishing up the first week of school here in Mt. Airy, Maryland. 6AM wake-up. Not fun. Seeing all the first-day-of-school pictures on Facebook and Instagram. GREAT fun! I love the pictures of the first day of school, prom, graduation, new driver, sporting events and cute-babies-doing-cute-things! Since both of my daughters are in college, my 15 year ol...
By Kelly on November 7, 2016 Parents regularly tell me that the highest area of manner “pain” for them is table manners. We eat three meals a day. Even when your kids go off to school and the patient cafeteria workers get to observe them for 5 meals a week, you can STILL be brought to the verge of insanity by the licking, shoveling and tooting that takes place at YOUR dinner table during the other meals. I know you. You have told me. And as a mom to three kids, I totally get it. Although my kids are of college and high school age, I occasionally need to remind. (Cough. Cough.) The kids would refer to it as nagging. I refer to it as doing my job as Mom; teaching them important life skills that will make others find them a pleasure to be around. And maybe even help them get a job someday. No one wants to dine with a boor. Oh noooooo. No one. I’m often asked if there is any magical way to have your darling dinners minding their meal time manners....