Month: May 2013

• I Am Not a Search Engine…But I Let My Kids Think I Am (from the Momplex Blog archives)

  Butterflies pee blood. That’s what my kids learned today from the Grow-a-Butterfly Kit I bought for them. Actually, since I’m the one who shouted this information while witnessing blood spraying from a newly emerged butterfly’s lady parts (they’re all girls in my mind), it’s probably more accurate to say they learned it from me. My…

  Jenny

  May 30, 2013

  motherhood

  butterflies, metamorphosis, motherhood, parenting, preschoolers

• Brave New People: Raising Courageous Kids (from the Momplex Blog archives)

  Yesterday, there was an FBI manhunt in our neck of the woods for an on-the-run murder suspect described as “extremely dangerous.” It began near my daughter’s school and gradually progressed toward my son’s. They were both in “hard lockdown” inside their classrooms for a couple of hours. Bus-riders were in lockdown even longer. Hard lockdown,…

  Jenny

  May 3, 2013

  bravery, death, headline news