According to the US Census Bureau in 2012, “Grandparents maintained 67 percent of coresident households. About 1 in 3 grandparent- maintained households had no parent present.” That is 67% of 4.2 MILLION households maintained by grandparents. WHAT? Those numbers shock me, and it is probably because I just didn’t grow up that way. People raised…
Tag: children
I Can’t Read Yet
My husband asked my five-year-old daughter, “What is three plus three?” My daughter replies, “I can’t read yet.”
Word for Wednesday 1
Every family has a bunch of words that were made up as the family, well, lived together in the same house for years and spoke. I like to think of these words as OUR family speak and if you know us, you can speak our language. If you don’t, then you can learn a new…
I Was Just Minding My Own Business
Today I’m doing something I have never done before. I am sitting in our local library with my computer and 12 of the kids just sitting and observing. I bring the kids here, but I have never recorded what I see and hear while I am supervising them. This should be fun. I was sitting…
