Mean Mommy: For when little girls won’t go to sleep…

NYE Kid mixers, Netflix saves the day and brings fun back to the parents!

New Year’s Eve changes when you have kids. No more going out to fun places and watching the ball drop. No more watching the ball drop at all, actually, because you are asleep hours before it drops, unless you mean watching it via the variety of pre-recorded NYE countdowns that Netflix has to offer.  But

Lying is my parenting strategy

Today I realized that lying is my parenting strategy for not overusing the “no” word- for the toddler anyway. I find myself saying “No” constantly. No, don’t take your clothes off. No, don’t feed that to the dog. No, you cannot fly. But in some instances, you can just lie instead of always saying “no.”