Raising Children to Weather the Storm
People ask me questions about my career all the time. How do you find a job in TV? What inspired you to become a meteorologist? How do you deal with rejection? “It’s pretty complex,” I’d sometimes reply. The truth is my journalism career is like online dating. I equate filling out an online job application to filling out…
If you’ve ever been to Jamaica, then you know all about Jamaican cornrows and beads. The braided curly hairstyles are actually called cane rows back home, and here in America people call them Dutch braids. I remember the night before we boarded the plane from Sangster International Airport in Monego Bay, Jamaica to begin a new life…
When I asked the pediatrician, “when do babies begin teething?” I was shocked by his answer. “Most babies teeth between four and six months,” he said. I knew there had to be some mistake. My son was only a couple months old when I started noticing signs of teething. I knew early on he was…
I wrote a post on my BabyCenter blog about having the sex talk with your kids in response to a video by Cut.com. The video featured parents talking with their kids about the birds and the bees. The analogies used to describe sex are hilarious or awkward depending on how you look at it. One parent illustrates how…
When it comes to dealing with frigid temps, I don’t play. It’s one thing for temperatures to dip into the 20s, but these days highs and lows range from teens to single digits. But the intense winds make it feel like it’s below zero. It’s the kind of cold that takes your breath away. With that…
No one ever told me that becoming a parent meant everyone giving you unsolicited advice. From breastfeeding tips to potty training and how to cure the common cold. The list goes on and on. Heck, I even got parenting tips from people who weren’t even parents! Anyway, I know that people mean well and believe…
It’s 12:30 in the afternoon and I’m getting out of the shower when all of a sudden I hear Bon Jovi blaring. My 18-month-old somehow set the alarm to go off in the kids’ bedroom. About 15 minutes later the alarm goes off in our bedroom. He somehow manages to set the clocks everyday day…
I remember being assigned a science project in elementary school. When the teacher asked what I had chosen, I told her I wanted to do mine on a volcano. I knew nothing about how to make a volcano or how to make it erupt. I wanted to construct a huge lava spewing mountain. Instead, I ended up…
