My daughters have had certain freedoms from just about day one — freedom to dress themselves how they wish, style their hair in any way that makes them happy, pick their school lunch snacks, become vegetarians, freely challenge the ideas of their parents, and on and on — but we […]
Despite a healthy lifelong fear of the Deep Woods and all that lurks inside, I have a deep affinity for the ginger from Portland, Oregon known as Red Yarn. Red Yarn, kindie rock’s resident foot-stomping folk troubadour, is back with a brand new album, Born In The Deep Woods, out […]
You might think that the title of this travel blog post makes absolutely no sense but you’d be absolutely incorrect. There IS an easy way to take a couples-only vacation WITH your kids and it makes financial sense to do so too. I explain how to do it and run […]
We were supposed to be watching the series finale of our favorite show, 90 minutes of British crime investigation that we’ve been leaving to get virtually dusty on the digital shelf of our PBS.org Roku account because once it’s over, it’s over and neither of us are ready for that […]
Hellos and handshakes from one blogger kid to another, to all, with cheeks rosy from the chill of a Lake Tahoe winter and from anticipating all of the joy that had been built into our schedules, helped make fast friends of tween people who happily joined the Sorento Family last […]
Reports from the frontline of parenting a new teenager
**This episode is sponsored by Clorox and also by Cricket Media, purveyors of fine magazines for children of all ages** So much new music to get to this month. Here’s what you’ll hear on this, the March 2017 episode of the OWTK Kids Music Monthly Podcast: Pointed Man Band “Upstream” […]
My baby turns 13 this week and I’m remembering less and less of the days that comprise those remarkable years. This is a little something about the memories we learn to hold on to and the ones we’re helpless to watch fade away. To hear me tell it now you’d […]
