My boys were fun when they were toddlers.  Like most kiddos at that age they had their own vocabulary.  My youngest son once asked for some ‘shmushmellows’. Of course, he meant marshmallows, but I think his name is more appropriate,…

My five-year old is learning to read.  This is NOT a good thing.  He’s reading Calvin and Hobbes.

You may recall that this is the child that recently took a ride on the back bumper of the UPS truck.  This is…

Have you ever wondered who the first person was to eat a certain food…and why?  Like chicken eggs.  Think about where they come from.  Who thought that would be a good thing to taste?  What about fish eggs?  How does…

I have another theory about why my youngest is so brash and demanding.  He’s a celebrity.

I thought he couldn’t read, but he must have discovered his starring role in the Jelly Mom column and now he treats the whole family…

I thought we had gone through the dictator phase with my youngest son when he was two-years old.  He’s five now.  There’s no more ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’  It’s ‘Now!’ ‘How many times do I have to tell you?’ and…

Does it make any sense to you why a child that’s been responsible for a certain chore for, say, seven years suddenly can’t remember how to do it?

Here and there I’d find a dirty dish in the cupboard, some crumbs…

A reader sent me a tip recently.  She said, when she is ‘eating healthy’ she allows herself to have a spoonful of chocolate syrup each day as a treat.  It staves off that chocolate monster without breaking your diet.

This sounded…

Why is it that my sons can’t whisper when they wake up?  Why must they leap from bed, yelling at the top of their lungs, bickering with each other?  Isn’t that bad for them?  Doesn’t it give them a headache? …

If you have more than one child, you know that the groceries get divvied up before you even unload them. It’s called a ‘pack mentality’ and some things immediately go on the endangered species list the minute they’re brought into…

I’m waiting for one of the kids to ask me what reptile dysfunction is. There’s no escaping the ads on television. I imagine how the talk will go so that I’m prepared:

“What er-reptile dysfunction, Momma?”

“It’s what happens when your frog…