## ODonnellWeb – Tag Parenting

Friends with pricetags

Posted on 01/08/2017 in misc • Tagged with Parenting, Business

McDonalds play area

Today’s Washington Post has this completely absurd story about a woman in DC that has turned a neighborhood playgroup into a $300,000 a year business.

Seriously?

I totally get the desire of parents with young kids to meet and connect with other parents with similar aged kids. Been …


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Teenage Wasteland

Posted on 04/30/2012 in misc • Tagged with Economics, Parenting

Kids can't get jobs in this economy


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Buffy and kids

Posted on 01/11/2011 in misc • Tagged with TV, Parenting

Buffy is a great show for kids


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Why is prom still a big deal

Posted on 05/18/2007 in misc • Tagged with Education, Parenting

Proms are just a dry run for the big wedding that has been pushed on girls since birth


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Failure is good

Posted on 05/08/2007 in misc • Tagged with Parenting, Education

If you aren't failing you aren't pushing yourself


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Missing the point on truancy

Posted on 05/01/2007 in misc • Tagged with Education, Parenting

Truancy is a symptom, not the problem


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Winning and losing in youth sports

Posted on 04/24/2007 in misc • Tagged with Parenting, Sports

Have fun, and get better after every practice and game are the only goals youth sports teams need


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Elitists at the gate

Posted on 01/06/2006 in misc • Tagged with Parenting

Junior Cotillions are still a thing?


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Nice Kid, but...

Posted on 06/21/2004 in misc • Tagged with Education, Parenting

Doing everything right is no guarantee that you'll get into Harvard


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Give Me Spring Break or give me death

Posted on 05/20/2004 in misc • Tagged with Parenting, Education, Homeschooling, Fredericksburg

Local parents in uproar over possible cut back of Spring Break


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Don't homeschool beer and alcohol use

Posted on 05/05/2004 in misc • Tagged with Parenting

Does parental supervised drinking now limit binge drinking later?


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Quotes from today's baseball game

Posted on 09/21/2003 in misc • Tagged with Baseball, Parenting

Some people shouldn't be allowed to breed


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It is a kids game

Posted on 08/06/2003 in misc • Tagged with Baseball, Parenting

How not to coach a Little League team


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Madison Avenue is out to get me

Posted on 06/15/2003 in misc • Tagged with Books, Parenting, Homeschooling

The ad men are targeting your kid


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Ghost Runner On First

Posted on 10/20/2002 in misc • Tagged with Baseball, Parenting

Baseball is losing the next generation


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