My child is afraid of bugs and I don’t know what to do about it
A bad experience has left my daughter afraid of bugs. So now what do we do?
Category Archives: bugs
Why I don’t panic about ticks and my kids
It’s tick season again. In fact, given the very mild winter we had, I’m not sure we were ever out of tick season. Certainly it is poised to be a very bad year of the creepy crawlers, given the lack of a good cold spell to help with die-back. But do we let fear of […]
Animal adventures: sometimes they find you
First there was the snake, discovered down by the canoe. Just a sweet little snake, minding it’s own business. It tried to snap at them when my husband first picked him up, but soon he settled down and enjoyed hanging with us for a bit. Okay, “enjoyed” might be a little strong, but he didn’t […]
How my kids learned to pay attention–and a great new podcast for kids
The kids and I took a long road trip over Memorial Day weekend to Vermont and back. To entertain us along the way, I attempted to find some kid-friendly podcasts to break up the steady diet of television shows, I Spy, and whining. After running through countless poorly-produced story podcasts where the hosts always had mysteriously thick […]
Attack of the killer snow bugs
Get your kid. Take them outside. Find a patch of snow, preferably around the base of a tree or by a ditch, usually in the shade. See those black dots there? No, not the dirt, that’s brownish and probably too big. The tiny black dots. Yeah, those. Look closer. Notice anything? Yeah. They’re moving. That’s […]
