Posted in Sherry Carr Deer on Oct 15th, 2008
I was talking with a new friend last week, and during the conversation, she asked me how I tell Nicholas about his Daddy Mark. This is something I’ve been thinking about a lot, pretty much since the moment that Mark died.
Right after Mark died, I was a little manic about memory. I was so afraid I [...]
Posted in Sherry Carr Deer on Oct 3rd, 2008
My wonderful, beautiful, wicked smart son has a great imagination. And he uses it. Often. As a parent, how do *you* differentiate between exaggeration/story telling/imagination and plain ol’ lying?
N is starting to tell stories, and when I try to get to the truth, I try as hard as I can not to lead the witness. [...]
Posted in Kymberli Mulford on Jun 2nd, 2008
Kymberli Mulford is the proud mom of a grade-schooler and high-schooler in the Chicago suburbs, and the proud grandmother of her now-grown stepson’s four children. When she’s not shuttling her sons from one activity to another, she works in the world of educational technology – as a district administrator, a learning facilitator, a consultant, and [...]
