Category: Homemaking

• An update on the Summer Screen Rules

  Well, we are a week into summer vacation here in the SFC household.  As you may remember I posted about the Summer Screen Rules here and I thought I’d give an update. It’s actually working!!! Firstly, it helps that E is goal driven and the rules are clear.  If this is what it takes to…

  Mindy Carlson

  July 3, 2015

  Homemaking, Kids, Tween Chronicals

  parenting, summer vacation, Summertime Rules, Swiss Family Carlson

• Sweet Bretzels: The cookie that almost beat me

  By now all of you know how much I love to bake. It’s calming and therapeutic for me to cream together butter and sugar with eggs and then mix in flour to form any number of cookies or cakes. I get it from my mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. My DNA isn’t pairs of ATGC like…

  Mindy Carlson

  May 24, 2015

  Food, Homemaking

  Alsace, Alsatian, baking, Bretzel, cinnamon and sugar cookies, English Biscuits, Sweet Bretzel, sweet bretzel recipe, tea biscuits, The Great British Bake Off, The Swiss Family Carlson

• Free Range Parenting

  I’ve had three friends forward me a story that appeared in The Washington Post on January 14, 2015, asking me to comment on it.  It’s a story about how two parents in Montgomery County are under investigation for letting their children go out by themselves.  Specifically, they are being investigated by CPS for neglect because…

  Mindy Carlson

  January 16, 2015

  Homemaking, Kids

  free range parenting, free-range, Gen-X parenting, latch key, parenting, parents investigated for neglect for letting children walk home alone