Category: Kids
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College Dorm Supply Shopping
My entire mom-ing career, I thought I was at peak school supply acquisition efficiency. One trip to Target, one trip to Staples and Boom! Done. Notebooks (the cool kind), binders, pens, calculators that cost more than my first car–I purchased all of it with ease. But that’s nothing compare to college school supply shopping. Shower…
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Beware the Ides of March
March is a complicated month, as I mentioned in my newsletter. This March has the added stress of waiting for college acceptances and then learning that since you can afford 2 toppings on your pizza you clearly don’t need financial aid. We sent an appeal to one of the college we’ve been accepted at and…
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How Following My Dream Made Me a Better Parent
As many of you know, I not only write mysteries, I also write parenting advice articles. I guess it was a natural journey. What bigger mystery is there than parenting? Deciding to write a book–really write a book and get an agent and get it published–was one of the scariest things I’d ever done. But…
Mindy Carlson 