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October 2015

October 19, 2015

12+ Scary Movies Our Kids Loved (including at least 5 “hells” and 2 “bollocks”)

By Screenshot from "Internet Archive" of the movie Dracula (1958) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons...

September 2015

September 16, 2015

Benny and the Jerk Balloon

My three-year-old may be the most emotionally healthy person in the world. I came across...

September 01, 2015

Should I let my kid dress like a weirdo?

There is a huge difference between sporting a blue mohawk because you think it looks...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

What’s for supper? Vol. 2, now with link up!

What's for supper? So glad you asked! Last week, I said: While I’m no cooking...

August 27, 2015

Dear Teacher

Alas. We spent our summer swimming, watching X Files, sucking down gallons and gallons of ramen, eviscerating...

August 24, 2015

How to organize lots of shoes and water bottles, plus a love letter

The main reason we home schooled for six years was because home schoolers don't have...

August 21, 2015

What’s for supper?

One of two things is happening here today. Either (a) I'm launching a recurring feature sharing...

August 14, 2015

25 Back-to-school Items Your Kids Can’t Geek Without

Doing your back to school shopping online, maybe? Do me a big favor and use this link.It...

August 12, 2015

Why it’s important to beat up robots

Was it a senseless tragedy, or was it a slice of richly deserved jungle justice when the hitchBOT,...

August 07, 2015

10 rules while I’m in Wichita

Far from this opera for evermore. Actually just for the weekend, for the Midwest Catholic...

July 2015

July 27, 2015

Expose your kids to art! (Or vice versa)

The other week, we visited the Worcester Art Museum in MA. I heartily recommend it...

July 22, 2015

Mother Eye/Father Eye

Our first day at the beach, finally! We went for a quick evening dip at...

July 22, 2015

Mother Eye/Father Eye

(Going through my archives as I put my new book together, and I found this...

July 20, 2015

“I don’t own my child’s body” is a clever mask for something cruel

"I Don't Own My Child's Body" is the weirdly melodramatic title of a parenting piece from...

July 02, 2015

Poetry-ize your house for the summer

Behold my triumph in a stealth supplemental classical education! My nine-year-old son, the one affectionately...

June 2015

June 05, 2015

7 video games, reviewed by my kids

Hey, who wants to talk about SOMETHING ELSE? How about vidya games? My kids play...

May 2015

May 22, 2015

Would your kids know what to do if someone molested them?

I don't care about the Duggars any more than I care about any family...

May 20, 2015

The Rubberbandians

Or, Why You Should Have a Bunch of Weird Kids and a Giant Dog. I had...

May 18, 2015

Yes, I want to see your scary toe.

My son goes, "Want to see my scary toe?" Oh man, what now? I think....

March 2015

March 24, 2015

What can Catholic parents learn from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?

Our kids need us. Most of our teenagers are not in danger of becoming violent...

March 23, 2015

I refuse to worry about what my kids eat for dinner.

Today, I'm making Zuppa Toscana. When I share recipes I'm trying, people often ask, "Will...

January 2015

January 20, 2015

Raising safe, independent kids

It's good and natural for parents to want to keep their kids safe, but it's...

December 2014

December 18, 2014

Gift-Giving is so Catholic!

We don't want to convey to our kids that love can be bought on...

December 16, 2014

Loving the adult Jesus

Christmas is the infancy of the Faith, and most people find it pretty easy to...

December 01, 2014

Today only: 15% discount on magazines from Cricket

To get the discount, use Promo Code NF12-002 at checkout. We have had subscriptions to...

November 2014

November 24, 2014

Knock-knock. Who’s there? Bad Mama.

PIC Jesus knocking at door Sound at the door: Shuffling, muffled sobbing, incompetent doorknob rattling; cries of,...

November 19, 2014

Advent is coming. Keep it simple! UPDATED

I know, I know, you're focused on Thanksgiving right now. Just bookmark this for next...

November 13, 2014

The Splat Life

PIC Wallace on train The train is whizzing out of control, and he can't...

November 10, 2014

I got nothin’, so we’re making muffins

Pumpkin muffins. This is our favorite, no-fail recipe: Downeast Maine Pumpkin Bread. Today we were...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

How to make your Halloween magnificent!

Our founding fathers didn't die face down in the mud of Vietnam only to see my...