May 12, 2008 Tips: Parenting with humor Play video

(NECN) - If you are a parent going a mile a minute, you may want to take a minute to chuckle at some tales from a suburban mom who tells it like it is! Carol Band has written a column called "A Household Word" for ten years, reporting on the home front.

Revealing details on everything from raising a dead hermit crab to warehouse shopping to trying on a bathing suit with a brutally honest child in two, Carol joins NECN's Leslie Gaydos for a discussion.