Working Class Parenting: Motivation, Education and Inspiration For Parents

1. This little boy who has had it with his grandma 2. This boy parallel parking like a boss 3. This kid who just doesn’t care. 4. This kid recovering from a fall. 5. This kid who had enough of her sister and her friend. 6. This kid who just trolled the other team 7. This boy trying to blow this dandelion 8. This little boy going down the stairs 9. This girl driving away 10. These girls who wanted to wake up their dad ...

Posted by Andrea Tomkins via Media Smarts It’s pretty amazing how tech-savvy kids are nowadays. I like to think I’m a pretty smart mamma but in certain areas my kids have me beat. The TV remote is one of the devices they understand better than I do and don’t even ask me to explain Minecraft. (Perhaps that is a different post altogether!) Our kids are coming of age at a time that things like online shopping, Facetime, and texting are all normal everyday occurrences. Technology is enabling people to do some pretty amazing things, and even communicate in a whole new way using a new language. You may know this as texting.

Here is a collection of recent parenting Tweets collected from various parents. I must admit, I can relate to half. Check out my very own incident at the end. Its not for the faint of heart. Enjoy! 1. The 3yo: "I had a booger. Blocking my nose. I took it out. And ate it. Yum. Yummy booger." And she wasn't lying, either. 2. What's wrong with those people? Who's driving those trucks? I don't like this."-Terrified 3yo watching Bob the Builder. 3. My kids have totally ruined the possibility of Netflix suggesting anything I would want to watch. 4. 2yo and I are about to embark on our maiden snuggle/movie on the new sofa. Ten minutes max before I fall asleep and she draws on my face. 5. Just discovered that my kid likes watching golf which is problematic because it's not good for me to be asleep when I'm alone with him. 6. Just washed down six cookies with a glass of white wine, in case you were wondering how taking my 2 kids to Disneylan...

  I remember the first time I met my wife, I had reluctantly visited a new youth group. To my surprise, upon my first visit their were only two people in the youth room. I was about half hour early and two individuals were my “now” wife and her best friend. They were practicing a song they would be singing in the main service. It took all of 10 to 15 minutes of looking and hearing her for me to decide that this was the girl I wanted to marry. Of course she didn’t even know I existed, but I would work on that. The area we lived in didn’t have much for teenagers to do, however it did have an ole’ school roller skating rink. This was our towns teenage mecca. Sure enough our first outing as a group and my first outing with my “now” wife was the roller rink. This would ultimately be where we would hang out the most, where I would eventually give her a “love” note shouting my love for her and the place where we would publicly hold hands for the first time. The rink had memories. ...