Torn Between Parenting AND Peace?   While summer vacations can be rewarding, plentiful, and filled with quality family time...holding the responsibility of entertaining the kids for two straight months can be downright DRAINING. Don't kid yourself. SUMMERS ARE HARD FOR PARENTS. If you've ever been made to feel inadequate from a member of an older generation of parenting, you aren't alone....and you aren't WRONG. Life WAS easier back then. Times have certainly changed as has the expectation of more parental involvement and societal pressure. This, in addition to the need to sustain a second income ... as well as an unavoidable increase in spending during the summer. (Sheesh. When … [Read more...]