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Sheryl Bone is a full time, online professor in the Department of Student Success at Kaplan University. An active member of professional organizations, she makes presentations on a variety of topics related to education. Sheryl serves as a regional leader for the College Reading and Learning Association. She is a full time mother to three children, ages 14, 12 and 10 and one little dog, as well as a full time wife to a busy, supportive husband. Always driving someone somewhere, she is sometimes frazzled, usually tired, but generally a very happy woman. Follow Sheryl Bone on twitter at http://twitter.com/MomandProfessor
Being a working mom is always a challenge, but working from home during summer vacation pushes the boundaries of absurdity at my home. I don't have regular child care. The school day is my work day, along with any early morning, evening and weekend hours ... Read more...
My thirteen year old son just returned from three weeks of traveling in Europe. He went with a group of students. He did not go with any family members. He certainly did not go with me, his mother. I was stressed for months prior to his depar ... Read more...
Forget about Miss Daisy ! I, too have myself a driver. Or at least I did over the Fourth of July weekend. My fifteen year old nephew Matthew got his driving permit. Never mind the fact that the boy announced his arrival to Easter brunch by pu ... Read more...
Two days ago my father drove forty five minutes to pick up my thirteen year old man child son and three of his friends. He took them back to his house, where my mother was waiting for them. Grandma and Grandpa then took the boys out to lunch. I'm su ... Read more...
I’m slowly recovering from my second hernia surgery in nine months. I’m certainly feeling better than I did three weeks ago, but I’m far from back to normal. I’m the first to admit my schedule is full, but how full is it compared to the ... Read more...
It takes eight people to do my job. The job of mom, that is. If you count the people it takes to do my teaching job as well, that makes a total of ten. I will be having surgery Tuesday to repair nerve damage from the hernia surgery I had back ... Read more...
As I’ve shared with you before, we added a puppy to our family last July. He is sweet and good natured. We have come to love him like a fourth child. I hadn’t realized this would happen when we got him. I had no idea ho ... Read more...
The only thing worse than having one surgery is having two ! Every mother in the world knows that none of us have time to get a cold, much less land in the hospital for surgery. However, that is exactly what I am going to be doing, for the second time in eight mont ... Read more...
My oldest son will turn thirteen next week. He is doing all the things teenage boys are supposed to do, like teasing his siblings and pulling away from his mom.
Max and I have had a complicated relationship over the years. He is severely dyslexic and dysgrap ... Read more...
"Nana's dead", my eight year old announced, walking through the door after school on Tuesday. "Did you know mom ?" Well, yes I knew. I was wondering how he knew. My husband's grandmother, known as Nana to my children, had ... Read more...
