Tag: Family

It’s Star Wars Day. May the Fourth. And I have a confession. I do not love Star Wars. There. I said it. To clarify, I like Star Wars and there are elements I truly enjoy. But I don’t love it like many other sci-fi geeks I know. What I do love is watching it with […]

CC BY Flickr user A♥ This may seem trivial to worry about. We are all feeling weighted heavily by the state of the world right now and the very difficult problems and choices we’re dealing with. But there are kids out there missing their friends very much, and even moreso when their birthdays roll around, […]

<img data-attachment-id=”327676″ data-permalink=”https://geekmom.com/2020/03/theres-too-much-to-do-during-a-quarantine/pleasedontmakemedostuff/” data-orig-file=”https://i1.wp.com/geekmom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/03/Pleasedontmakemedostuff.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1″ data-orig-size=”1200,675″ data-comments-opened=”1″ data-image-meta=”{“aperture”:”2.2″,”credit”:””,”camera”:”SAMSUNG-SM-J120A”,”caption”:””,”created_timestamp”:”1555247456″,”copyright”:””,”focal_length”:”3.3″,”iso”:”50″,”shutter_speed”:”0.0625″,”title”:””,”orientation”:”1″}” data-image-title=”Pleasedontmakemedostuff” data-image-description=” Barely visible pre-teen holds T-shirt that reads “PLEASE DON’T MAKE ME DO STUFF” ” data-medium-file=”https://i1.wp.com/geekmom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/03/Pleasedontmakemedostuff.jpg?fit=600%2C338&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://i1.wp.com/geekmom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/03/Pleasedontmakemedostuff.jpg?fit=1000%2C563&ssl=1″ class=”size-full wp-image-327676″ src=”https://i1.wp.com/geekmom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/03/Pleasedontmakemedostuff.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&ssl=1″ alt=”Barely visible pre-teen holds T-shirt that reads “PLEASE DON’T MAKE ME DO STUFF”” width=”1200″ height=”675″ data-recalc-dims=”1″ />Really feeling my kid’s shirt this week.

Image credit: Anemone123. Image used and altered under Pixabay License. I have depression and anxiety. It’s been about a year and a half since the realization first hit me, but it wasn’t too much of a surprise. I can link my mental health struggles to a particular event, my miscarriage at eleven weeks, after two […]

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Reading Time: 2 minutes This kid on the outside/This kid on the inside You know how people ask what your past self would have thought if they could see you now? I wonder. Would mine be happy with me or not? Yeah, she would, and I don’t know why that disappoints me. Past me was […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes Image by Elizabeth MacAndrew. If your kids are above the age of three, chances are good that the end of this holiday season found them gaining some sort of toy with lots of small pieces. The thing is kids don’t usually just get one toy like this—no, the accessory containing toys […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes An Elf on the Shelf. Image via the MacAndrew Family. So you gave in. Maybe it was this year. Maybe it was some point in Christmas past. Maybe you were just hoping that you could do something magical for your kids one fateful year after you felt guilty for being “too […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes This picture is eight years old, but is nonetheless an accurate representation of this morning. I know, that title is a bit tongue-in-cheek. But my husband and I have been laughing all morning. We all know screentime is not inherently evil. We get a lot out of it. I’m here typing […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Image: Warner Brothers. My eldest was three months old when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows came out. It was my first time wanting to binge-read since this little person came into my life, wanting all my attention, and I wasn’t sure how to make it work. I somehow figured out […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Image composited by the author from public domain pictures Introversion is still considered a minority setting in our society. You can tell because you can always find articles explaining introversion to “typical” people. “How does an introvert think?” “How can you support the introverts in your workplace?” “Don’t worry, introversion has […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes Mother’s Day Image: Pixabay Hey, you! Yes, you. The one reading this. I see you. I do. You’re the mom looking at all the social media posts about kids making breakfast or flowers being brought to moms in bed and thinking, “why not me?” Why Is Mother’s Day Difficult? Maybe you’re […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes Image Credit: N Engineer (Chief Wahoo images from public domain) Dear Fan of Chief Wahoo, I don’t know if you were one of the fans who decided it was appropriate to curse obscenities at the protestors outside the stadium at the home opener. I get that your problem with the Indians’ […]

Reading Time: 1 minute Image credit: NASA Geek Links are cool stories that we’ve found elsewhere on the internet that we think our readers will love, too. Click through to read: NASA Astronaut Anne McClain, an Army Major attack helicopter pilot, aerospace engineer, and member of NASA’s 21st pilot class, revealed some touching official photos […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Welcome to the Hounds of Daksterville, where I’ll be documenting my journey into the world of service dogs. I’m going to be covering everything from overall process, cost, laws, interviews with service dog trainers, myths & truths, and so much more. Today, I’m going to give you an intro to the basics […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes Student protests, across generations. Left: By uwdigitalcollections (CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons; Right: Fabrice Florin, https://www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/38488882960 (CC BY-SA 2.0) I want to start out by saying that I’m not starting a political argument. This article isn’t about policies or positions. It’s about attitude and age. You’ve probably seen the […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes I discovered I can watch Dunkirk with my sons. Wow. It was seven years ago this week that I first started writing for GeekMom. Wow. It was within a few months of the blog’s launch. The group of us was smaller and much of our content consisted of long-form essays about […]