Our family is anything but mundane. My boyfriend/future husband is 19 years older than I am and has a 20 year old daughter and a 21 year old son. The daughter is married and about to make us grandparents for the first time. My kids are actually my ex-girlfriend's children.
raising children
A truly extended family... creating a safety net for the children

Raising a Genius
With the importance of a college education, parents have been trying to prepare their children early by improving their intelligence levels before they even have the ability to walk. Parents want nothing more than to have healthy, happy, and successful children. So now we not only have “get rich quick” schemes for adults, we now have “get smart quick” videos for babies.

Wee Tiny Opportunism
Brain Drain is a lunchroom CEO. He has developed a cafeteria-based "business" that sounds more like a (food) pyramid scheme. It works like this:

a place to run
When Hilo is rainy and overcast (which is often), the leeward side of the island is usually a good place to step out of the clouds and into the sun. For weeks, the entire island was smothered by a gloomy sort of rain that left everyone tinged with melancholy. In the past week or two, the sun has broken out across the green island, much to our relief.

Parents Fight Over Which Gang Toddler Should Join
Have you ever woken up...and in the midst of your groggy, half-asleep state in which you aren't quite aware of everything yet, but you know you aren't dreaming, you read something so stupid that it makes you think - "Did I just read that right?"

Racism is alive and…. Swinging??
Racism is alive and…. Swinging??
Spare The Rod, Spoil The Child: The Downward Spiral of America’s Youth
America’s future lies in its youth and that fact causes me a lot of worry. The generation I was born into, those now of college age and just past college age, causes enough worry but the generations following my own truly scare me.

To Shelter or Not to Shelter?
There is this really nice family that I know. They have three kids, two boys, one 3 and the other 5, and one girl who is 10. The parents are wonderful people who love and adore their children. But, I have an issue with how they raise them. I was around the children, namely the daughter, and was telling her mother a story about my accident.



