Parenting

By Melissa Stefanec Somewhere between all the obligations, parents lose something really important. We spend our days caught up in a whirlwind of things

By Melissa Stefanec MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com One thing that bemuses me to no end is the list of things I said I would never do as

By Melissa Stefanec MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com On my kids’ first day of school, they will walk into their new classrooms in their favorite outfits and with

By Melissa Stefanec MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com And just like that, pandemic restrictions are fading in the rearview mirror. Life is starting to look more like it

By Melissa Stefanec MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com It’s not all about me. It never was. However, I’m almost certain there was a time when I thought that

Whoever you are and however you helped children this year, thank you By Melissa Stefanec MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com To all of the people who work for

Getting on the same page now will alleviate a lot of problems down the road By Melissa Stefanec MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com There are a lot of

By Melissa Stefanec MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com My kids are good at a lot of things. They invoke joy and laughter. They keep my life lively and

Cleaning out some mental clutter By Melissa Stefanec MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com Writing about parenting is a lot like actually parenting. There is so much to cover

By Melissa Stefanec MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com I don’t choose to live in Central New York because of its Februarys. The lack of daylight, unrelenting ice and