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The Man (of the House): The love of my life. Severely addicted to books (that take up WAYYYY too much space in our house) and raw garlic. We've been married 13 years, but involved for many more. Long story....

Our Kids:
SC:  Age 13. Book addicted like both her parents. Serious, but with a nice sense of humor. Well mannered in the eyes of the world, but at home,it can be another story(!)

JR: Age 9  I think of her as a Disney Princess's evil twin. All the eccentricity of both sides of the family wrapped up in a sweet little body and an adorable smile. People find her a darling. I do too, but I also find her exhausting!

The Beasts: Our 2 cats, both adopted from animal rescue. "Bart" is a big, solid black, total teddy bear of a cat. Our brown tabby queeen "Bella" is  in love with The Man, though she seems to like me too!

Me: Children's librarian by day, tired keeper of all of the above by night. When I think of my life, I think of Nicole Hollander (Sylvia)'s immortal line about things that are easier than combining a family and a career. Like swimming the Amazon covered in peanut butter....

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« H E Rants (Childrearing) :: LibraryLady :: email
posted Thu, 08/04/05

What else can you call it when your ten year old gets ticked because she has to take a shower and eat dinner before she can watch TV, and as a protest sits in the bathtub for 30-45 minutes AFTER the shower is over?

Stark naked of course!

Having had many, many, many years of experience dealing with all my other stubborn relatives....

(And I know several people who know me and are reading this blog are hooting at the idea, but I'm the most reasonable one in the entire bunch!)

.......I left her her towel, her robe and ignored her.

Fourty or so minutes later, she came down, ate her dinner, and was a sweet, well behaved kid for the rest of the night.

The only one who got gypped out of anything was her--she lost a LOT of TV time.

 I doubt if it'll teach her anything, but I can dream, can't I?

The tween years are really a blast. I just can't wait for the teen years.

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