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Goodbye To The High School Experience: What I Won’t Miss

April 6, 2025 By Katy 2 Comments

“I just deposited lunch money into the portal for the last time,” posted one of my Facebook friends. She is the parent of a high school senior like I am. “Sniff!” she ended her post, adding the crying emoji. Sniff? I thought. Sniff!?! I’m over here thinking “Woo hoo!” Is there an emoji for a [Read More]

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10 Effective Workouts You Do When Parenting a Teenager

September 2, 2024 By Katy 2 Comments

Mom figure holding a water bottle and yoga mat with text that says "10 effective workouts you do when parenting a teenager".

When my kids were little, I used to burn calories chasing them around the house or backyard.  They were constantly in motion–and so was I. Indeed, parenting little ones was a workout!  The pace slowed a tad during the elementary school years as they turned to playing with their friends at recess or because they [Read More]

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10 Easy Way to Help the New Kid in School

August 4, 2019 By Katy 6 Comments

I adjusted my off-the-shoulder sweatshirt covered in splatter paint. Inspired by the movie Flashdance, my sweatshirt did little to distract from the fact that I was a 5’8″ tall twelve-year-old standing alone outside a 7th grade classroom. It was the first day of school and I knew no one. My family had just relocated from [Read More]

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Middle School Made Me Resilient and Other Life Lessons from Those Awkward Years

July 21, 2019 By Katy 5 Comments

Phew. That’s me wiping my brow because my daughter survived her first year of middle school. Yet, she’s got two more years to endure, so fingers crossed that they treat her kindly. I wrote the post I’m sharing below last year before she started 6th grade. It originally appeared on Your Teen and I’m grateful [Read More]

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That End of School Year Craziness

June 18, 2018 By Katy 6 Comments

Accurate picture of me during the year-end fifth grade band concert.

We are officially done with the school year in our neck of the woods and I couldn’t be more pleased. No more packing lunches. No more nagging children to study. No more racing around to one billion year-end school events. This last item, the racing around, is where I failed most often in the last [Read More]

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A Peek At My Goings-On

January 22, 2018 By Katy 11 Comments

When the science fair is voluntary and you pray your kid doesn't want to do it -- ExperiencedBadMom.com

I’ve taken some new responsibilities at work. You know work. The things that provides money to pay bills, health and dental insurance, and a retirement account. Yes, that work. These new responsibilities come with additional pay (yay!), but also additional time (how dare they?). They have seriously cramped my non-profitable but creatively-stimulating blogging time. Consequently, I’m [Read More]

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The one about raising a teenage boy

October 16, 2017 By Katy 18 Comments

The one about raising a teenage son. No reasonable offer refused!

Did you know that I am the middle of three girls? That’s right, no brothers. Which is important because I’m continually surprised about things while raising a teenage boy. Things like: That bodily function jokes are so funny. How any one person could have so much energy. That boys seemingly cannot think of more than [Read More]

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