It’s mere hours until the bus comes, until the first drop off in the first carline of the school year. Do you have all your supplies ready? You packed the pencils, right, and you’ve got the lanyard ready with the bus tag? There will be a nice volunteer (you should volunteer too, but not today, not if it’s your first bird to leave the nest) to help these little guys get to where they need to be. Whether they are 5 years old and still have a face full of baby teeth or whether t

With all the school board meetings and mask mandates being hot topics of discussion this week, let’s reflect for a moment on the elephant in the room - the real controversy on everyone’s mind, the thing that divides us into solid camps of Pro or Con. And when all this passes - and it will, oh it will, as history has oft illustrated, what then? Here’s the thing: some of us just can’t pull off a middle part. But we don’t want to look totally dated or cringey, which is apparentl

So, *that* was a hot one. I mean all week long with the three digit heat indexes and too hot to play outside and too hot to even *be* outside. And inside was no better, what with social media literally exploding because Delaware’s Governor called for a mask mandate in schools to interfere with the spread of a deadly disease that is crippling hospitals and devastating families and communities. Guys, we have *got* to turn down the heat. People are so angry. They are angry on so

As parents, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by all that we still don’t know about the pandemic. When will our younger kids have access to vaccines? Will masks be required at school, on the bus, during after school activities? Will there even be after school activities? What will our kids’ classrooms and learning be like this year? At NAMI Delaware, we have seen firsthand the impact of COVID-19. Our work involves support, education, and advocacy statewide for various stakeholders

What’s for dinner? When’s dinner? Do we have the ingredients for dinner? Who is cooking the dinner? Who is preparing for the cooking of the dinner? Or should we go out? Where? Or get take out? From where? Tacos again? Or pasta again? Or pizza - again? OMG I’m so tired of thinking about dinner. When we envisioned starting a family, I’m not sure what we expected but it was definitely not how much thought and work and conversation would go into figuring out what we were going to

The Olympics is blowing my mind. On the one hand, you have a sport’s top athletes competing in the same events our children compete in - the 100 meter freestyle, for example, is a staple of most summer swim meets. The degree of difficulty doesn’t change - it’s using a specific skill to move through water, and if you do it faster than the other swimmers, you get the gold — or the first place ribbon at your local swim club. Same same. Then there are the subjective sports like d