Sarah Knight
Teens and Screens: The Making of a Perfect Storm
Encyclopedia Britannica, home phones, mixed tapes--these are the things I remember from my teenage years. Now my teens have google, smart phones, ipads. Has there been much of a change in the raising of a...
Raising Teenagers: The Myth of Raging Hormones
There is a teenager living in your household--and it is like living through a reverse caterpillar-butterfly life cycle. As a young child, your offspring was like a beautiful butterfly: your concerns were keeping your...
First Generation American: Questions of Legacy and Identity
Legacy: this is the concept that has been haunting me this St. Patrick's Day. What is the legacy I am leaving to my children? Forget the materialism and possessions that crowd our lives, but what...
Redshirting: Why I am Waiting an Extra Year to Send My Child to Kindergarten
I am horrible at making decisions. It doesn't matter if they are big, important decisions or small, seemingly insignificant decisions, I struggle equally with both. Examples: My oldest child came home from the hospital...
Sunny Bridge Natural Foods and Cafe: Providing Healthy Choices for the Modern Family
"You only get one mind and one body. And it's got to last a lifetime...it's what you do right now, today, that determines how your mind and body will operate ten, twenty, thirty years...
Mom’s Taxi Cab Confessions
This is my minivan.
These are my children.
Count them: one, two, three, four, five. Five siblings in one minivan. Five siblings who are involved in a slew of different activities, which means we spend most...