May 10, 2019
On this week's Roundabout Roundup. Terri cared enough to share a very funny episode of 99% Invisible. Nicole suggested ways for teachers to show students they care at The Inclusive Class. And Catherine reminded us that thrift-shopping is a way to care for Mother Earth. (Mentioned: Thrifted By Ava...
May 9, 2019
The World Health Organization recently issued screen-time guidelines for kids: No screens at all for babies under a year old, and one hour a day max for kids 5 and under. Our response to this is to laugh heartily, and reminisce about all the fun (and useful) screen time we had with our little kids. We loved this expert...
May 8, 2019
In the complaint department today: We try and try to teach our kids basic life skills, like laundry and cooking. And yet (some of) them just don't seem to get it. We'd like our appliances to step up and share some of the burden.
May 7, 2019
On this week's entertainment-themed Round 2, we watched "Ghosts," the last episode of season 3 of One Day at a Time—and probably the last episode ever. We hate to see it go (still mad at you, Netflix!), but we're glad it happened.
On the West Wing, "Drought Conditions" was an old-school style episode, with flashbacks,...
May 6, 2019
A New York Times letter-writer prompted today's chat when she wrote: "It is my belief that children often have more of an impact on changing their parents than parents may have on molding their children." We can't quite commit to that "more" business, but agree that parenting sure has changed...