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This Piet Mondrian Abstract Art for Kids is a simple art project and lesson suitable for many ages. Piet Mondrian was a talented and versatile artist that is known mainly for his geometric, clean pieces like “Trafalgar Square” & “Broadway Boogie Woogie”. His art is a fun one to introduce to kids because the style […]
Pardon my double negatives, but Pig the Pug is not named “Pig” for nothing! Pig the Pug is a PIG and he likes to smell like one! PIG LIKED TO GET DIRTY. HE FRANKLY WAS RANK.HIS PAWS COULD BE FRIGHTFUL. HIS FUR OFTEN STANK. HE WASN’T OFFENDED BY ODOR OR SMELL.AND IF YOU WEREN’T CAREFUL, […]
Father’s Day is right around the corner. What do you get for the special dads in your life? Our team has you covered whether you are shopping for the father of your children, your father, grandfather, or someone equally as special. 1. Wallet Ninja // 2. NOLA T-Shirt of the Month Club Subscription // 3. […]
After a minor car accident, Muhlaysia Booker was held at gunpoint by the driver of the other car she hit because he wanted her to pay for damages right then. Someone nearby suggested he would pay the driver $200 if he beat Booker for the trouble she had caused. So he did. Bystanders watched, cheered, […]
I live in the Midwest, but as a Southerner by birth, my heart goes out to the folks in Alabama and Georgia. What’s happening now is reflective of all the worst things that are associated with Southern culture. I’m disgusted but not surprised that men all over the country are standing at the front lines […]
I was having tacos with an old student of mine who was about to finish a Ph.D. He got married just before starting graduate school, and had a son shortly after. “It’s had its ups and downs,” he said. “My wife has been really supportive.” Then he told me how difficult the previous year had […]
If she were my first child, she’d have been my last. Or at least, that’s the phrase we use around the house when discussing our youngest, Aspen. It’s funny, because we used to complain about our oldest, Tristan. We talked about how wild he was. How he didn’t sleep well, and how I couldn’t get […]
When I was a kid, I loved reading about Laura Ingalls Wilder and her adventures on the prairies of Minnesota. I devoured the books and delighted in watching the television series that depicted a cute, bucktoothed girl in braids skipping through life on the banks of Plum Creek. I wanted to be the girl who […]
Three-year-old Truman Scott loved pancakes for breakfast, which his mother Tiffany says he called “pan-takes.” He loved running outside on the family farm in the sunshine wearing nothing but his tiny cowboy boots. He loved bossing his siblings around even though he was the youngest, and shadowing his father as he took care of chores around […]
The spring and summer youth sports season is upon us, my friends. I love it. I really do. In fact, you could say my family’s “all in.” My son plays soccer, baseball, and summer basketball; my daughter plays softball and my husband helps coach. Every weekend and several evenings during the week we find ourselves, […]
“My son is saying he is a girl because a friend at school recently transitioned and he thinks it’s cool to be transgender now. ” “My kid thinks she’s a he because of the YouTube videos she watches endlessly.” “‘Transitioning’ genders is not a real thing; it’s made up by internet trolls and lefties.” “There’s […]
Mississippi State Rep. Doug McLeod was arrested on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge In today’s dispatch from the party of Family Values we have Mississippi State Rep. Douglas McLeod, who was arrested recently for allegedly punching his wife in the face. His reason for being a violent and abusive lunatic? She wasn’t undressing quickly enough […]
A study of kindergarteners shows that education is not the great equalizer that Americans often think it is Here’s what we’d like to think: that in the United States, no matter what you’re born with, you can succeed, and even thrive, as long as you have an education and determination. That even if you don’t […]
Are you done teaching preschool for the summer? Maybe like me, you are frantically finishing up your school year at preschool while also trying not to be THAT mom that is packing three carrots unpeeled, have a sleeve of Ritz crackers, and a yogurt two days past it’s best before for your own kids’ lunch. […]
Dads fall in love with their babies and their whole outlook on life changes the first time they meet their little. And while there’s an immediate bond for mamas and babies if for no other reason but that Mom was baby’s home for ten months, dads don’t always connect as quickly or as easily. Not […]
A 1o-year-old girl from El Salvador died in September after being detained at the border – the sixth child to die in the past year Just days after the fifth child migrant died this year after being detained by U.S. Border Patrol, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reports that a sixth […]
