Family – Page 3 – Bethanne Kim

Meeting Online Friends IRL

First, second, and third: Most strangers are harmless, not dangerous. A teeny, tiny portion of strangers are Bad People who will do Bad Things if they get the chance. Sadly, because those Bad Things are So Very Bad, it is important to learn about how to recognize potential Stranger Danger and to be very careful […]

Bethanne Kim 8 years agoFebruary 1, 2022

Family Featured Health and Wellness School

Learning to Set Goals

Sit down and either decide on a goal you have or work with your child to set a goal for them to achieve. Write it down. If you have several, put them in order and note if they are for personal, school, family/home, sports, faith, etc. Here are some examples: Personal: I will write a […]

Bethanne Kim 8 years agoFebruary 1, 2022

Family Featured Health and Wellness

Explaining Grandparents to Kids

My kids are lucky. They have three grandparents who love them and are part of their lives. On one side, they have my mom, a woman who became a certified yoga instructor at 60, and my dad, who practically has to be tied down to stop him from working in the yard and around the house. […]

Bethanne Kim 8 years agoFebruary 1, 2022

Family Featured Health and Wellness Lists

Gift Guide: Buying Essential Oils

Based on my non-scientific observations, if you are a man and are buying essential oils (eos), there is a good chance they are a gift. Most of the available information is about how to use them. This is about what to look for when you are buying eos, especially as a gift, not how to use them. There […]

Bethanne Kim 8 years agoFebruary 9, 2022

Ages and Stages Family Featured Musings

Choosing Godparents

Depending on your faith, you may need to know who your child’s godparents will be almost as soon as they are born, or maybe not until years later. But what goes into choosing a Godparent or what they are expected to do? Is it a legally binding relationship? What family pressures do you have? No one […]

Bethanne Kim 8 years agoFebruary 1, 2022

Ages and Stages Current Events Family Featured General School

End the zero tolerance policies.

End the zero tolerance policies. There are very few things were a zero-tolerance policy really makes sense. When the PC-police prevent us from discussing any cultural, ethnic, or racial differences in even the most casual, passing way, they make it worse. It’s obvious to even the littlest kid that different people look different. Observing […]

Bethanne Kim 8 years agoFebruary 1, 2022

Ages and Stages Family Featured General

GO PLAY IN THE RAIN!

Seriously. The next time it rains, just go play in the rain with your kid. Heck, take a walk and enjoy it by yourself! You won’t melt, although your mascara might run and glasses get water spots. Do you remember what it was like as a little kid? Little kids run in the rain. They […]

Bethanne Kim 9 years agoFebruary 1, 2022

Ages and Stages Family Featured

Individual Liberty

Individual liberty. You won’t like what everyone else does with theirs. Get over it. Devon Austin Generally (FB post) My kids have shared a room for nine years. The younger one just decided he wanted his own room. Given the level of bickering they had been doing, I made it happen that same day. (Luckily, […]

Bethanne Kim 10 years agoFebruary 1, 2022

Ages and Stages Family Featured General

Playdates and Guns

I don’t know if you have seen it, but there is a post making the rounds about a mom who is concerned that there might be unsecured firearms left laying around other people’s homes. The original poster is unwilling to let her kids play at anyone else’s home if they own a gun, unless she […]

Bethanne Kim 10 years agoFebruary 1, 2022

Ages and Stages Current Events Family Featured Fun and Games

Baltimore Riots and The Mom of the Year

If you haven’t seen the video, just search for “Mom of the Year”+”Baltimore Riots”. It’s a mom cussing out her fully-grown (but not adult) son and hitting him when she found him out with the rioters. He goes home with her and not a single rioter tries to interfere with the Mama Bear making her […]

Bethanne Kim 10 years agoFebruary 1, 2022