This Full House

Flip-Worthy Moments: If Kids Could Vote

Join me on celebrating Election Day on Facebook!

In this month's issue of Growing Pains - bet you didn't know that I have a monthly column at the Imperfect Parent, huh? - I'm proudly acknowledging the fact that my parents are taking a ginormous leap of faith, by voting in their first presidential election, for the first time, in over 50 years!

But, if even that doesn't move you to go and vote (seriously, my father swore he never would) my kids are more than willing to share a few reasons why they think, you know, you should.

Shaking It Up On the Soccer Field of Good and Evil

Mini-me (on far left, wearing red) at her soccer team's first practice, last night.

Does your kid play soccer?  Baseball?  Football?  How about basketball, hockey or softball?  Yes?

[nods head]

Perhaps, you've even coached a team, or two.

Like, my kids' coaches (two of them are playing soccer, this year) who volunteer their time, year after year, one season into the next and sometimes more than one sports, at a time.

PHEW.

Don't get me wrong, my husband would love to coach, but Garth (not his real name) gets home really late and sometimes is scheduled to work three weekends out of the month.

Me?  Well, as I see it, teaching kids sports means a) one would need to know a little something about that particular sport and b) being able to physically, you know, do it.

I mean, giving birth to 4 babies, I can't do a jumping jack, or sneeze, without having certain parts of my body begin to leak (you're welcome) sometimes, all at once (I'm sure) besides, my uterus might fall out, or something.

Still.

Some of these guys are diehard dedicated to involving themselves in nearly every aspect of their children's lives and I can't help but think, you know, what kind of day job allows these people ALL that free time?

A Letter to the Next President of the United States

Dear Mr. President,

I know you're busy.  You've worked very hard, traveled many miles, remained sleepless for a ridiculous amount of hours and heard millions of voices asking you to remember them in your considerations as the next President of the United States.

As a mom of 4 children, I feel it safe to say...it's about to get worse.

National Women's History Museum Needs a Home!

From Hillary Clinton's run for the Presidency, the fierce beauty and strength of gold medal winners Nastia Liukin, Natalie Coughlin, to Darra Torres’ improbable 5th Olympic bid (at 41, she is one of the oldest female Olympians at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games) it's been a historic year for women!

To the media, I'm just another mom blogger -- serious issues, like politics, aren't supposed to interest me -- still, I can't help but wonder.

Why IS IT so hard to find a home in our nation's history for these American women?!?!?