education
by Dr. Carrie Wells on August 28th, 2018 | No Comments »
Last night, we went to my daughter's preschool orientation. We had the opportunity to tour her new classroom, and she was so excited to see her name all over the place: on the birthday board, on her cubby, on her class folder, and on the list at the beginning of…
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mom • parenting
by Jyl Johnson Pattee on September 4th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
My father in law doesn't believe in nicknames. He named his second son David so people would call him David. That we all call him Dave is very disconcerting to @troypattee's dad. That Dave is such a Dave, doesn't really matter. It's the principle of the matter and at least…
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mom • parenting
by Jyl Johnson Pattee on February 13th, 2010 | 29 Comments »
If you and your partner are anything like me and my husband, you deliberated over what to name each and every child. In fact, we "deliberated" so much, we finally had to put a moratorium on the baby name discussion with our last child to avoid getting in fights…
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