9/28/2012 3:38 PM
Helping with homework used to be so easy.
Back in the day, little ones sidled up to mom or dad and asked, “How do I do this?” It was all about spelling “sky” or ...
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9/27/2012 1:35 PM
One of the toughest jobs of grandparenting is keeping your mouth shut. Biting your own tongue is painful, but necessary.
When I was raising my own family, ...
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9/26/2012 9:56 AM
Every day on the way to school for the past week, my kids have taken note of the Tulsa State Fair progress.
First came the t-shirt on the Golden Driller.
My ...
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9/25/2012 3:20 PM
Let the spankings begin.
That's the reader response to my blog on corporal punishment in schools: Spanking students is a divisive issue .
From casual acquaintances ...
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9/24/2012 7:05 AM
Two-day trip, 14 hours of driving, baby. What could possibly go wrong?
My baby loves her car seat
Car rides have been fun up until now. We had an earlier start ...
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9/22/2012 8:22 PM
Saturday at 7 a.m. I was quite pleased that I wasn’t going into labor. After all, I had a schedule to keep. My mom was flying in at 10, I was scheduled for work at 3 ...
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9/22/2012 12:00 PM
My son was thrilled to be sitting in traffic and wearing a cheap t-shirt a couple of weeks ago.
I was treating him to his first college football game at my alma ...
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9/21/2012 1:11 PM
It’s school picture time.
Picture day at a school with uniforms takes on a monumental meaning because students get to “free dress.”
My kids know what they ...
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9/21/2012 12:50 PM
A relative of mine had a baby recently. A blessed event at all levels, but especially considering she and her husband had been trying for some time.
Anyway, I ...
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9/21/2012 10:12 AM
A British soldier gave birth this week on the front lines in Afghanistan, where the pregnancy had apparently gone unnoticed for several months.
Both mother and son ...
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9/20/2012 4:13 PM
When our oldest grandchildren, twin boys, living near Lawrence, Kansas, announced that they were thinking about attending Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, my wife ...
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9/18/2012 7:00 AM
Swats. Licks. Paddlings. Spankings.
For many of people, corporal punishment was a routine part of their school years. So when we ran a story about it in the paper ...
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