Author Archives for Robin Wheeler-Barber
Pick-Your-Own Farms Save Summer!
It’s June, and we’ve hit that scary territory where my daughter is out of school for two weeks. We have two extra days a week to fill, when we were barely finding ways to fill the previous five. Given her druthers, my daughter would happily while away the extra days parked in front of the […]
Monkey Brains Shouldn’t Replace Mom’s Brains
I swore I’d never be one of those moms who caves to the whining in the cereal aisle. I don’t care if the sugar-sweet, brightly-colored cereals are on my child’s eye level, beckoning to her with a toucan’s song. I will not succumb to the blatant marketing aimed at small children, and I most certainly […]
Kids Do the Java Jive
Shortly after my daughter’s first birthday in 2005, my local newspaper ran an editorial in which a columnist complained about parents taking their kids to Starbucks and disrupting her coffee break. She said something to the extent of, “I had to suffer through McDonald’s when my kids were young and you should, too.”
No. Just because […]
