“Autism Shmautism” by Tamar Jacobs
Autism is you’ve got to say it louder. No, a little quieter. Wait, you have to look at her honey because she didn’t hear . . .
Tag: age five
“This Is What Happens When a Writer Listens to Too Many Children’s Songs” by Katherine N. Friedman
Some of her patients had parenting problems more than they had medical problems, but Dr. Simian didn’t say that out loud as she took Mrs. Monkey’s call . . .
“Survey Says? Your Parenting Stinks” by Molly DeFrank
We pulled into our parking space at 9:38am. Yes, we were technically eight minutes late. But I’d managed to dress and feed four hungry tiny people, wrestle them into car seats, and drive here. Eight minutes late was a win.
“Up His Nose His Finger Goes” by Sarah Acord
There is a boy with dark brown hair . . .
“The Experts” by Amy Rigby
“Mommy, can we go to McDonald’s?” Hazel asked in her piping voice. . . .
“Mommy and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Really Crappy Day” by Vicki Severn
I woke up at 1:00 a.m., when Jimmy had a bad dream, and at 3:45, when Sarah peed in her bed, and when my alarm went off at seven I got up and stepped on a lego and by mistake Jimmy got toothpaste on my last clean pair of pants, and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, really crappy day . . .
“Parenting, Barbershop-style” by Nkosi Ife Bandele
First of all, lemme say that Big Ted’s my man. He always gives me a tight cut, and he’s cool, you know, funny. Got that educated-like slang. (Apparently he did a lot of reading in the joint . . .)
“What Mothers Do” by Bill Butler
As a five-year-old, I didn’t know how poor we were. We had just moved to Manhattan and knew no one in the city . . .