Paula Schmitt is a writer and the "All Sports Mom" to four boys, and one daughter, living in Central Vermont. When she's not swamped in laundry, grocery shopping and writing deadlines her hobbies include dusting, cleaning bathrooms and traveling to her son's sporting events. She writes a regular column, Mommy Mediator, at JustForMom.com and a column, The All Sports Mom, at SanityCentral, RaisingOurKids, MommyHullabaloo, Penwomanship and ShowMomTheMoney. Paula has been published in the Herald of Randolph, Adopting for Tomorrow magazine, WriteFromHome, Witwords, Iparentingstories, ThePhilosophicalMother and several other parenting sites. In between her kids play dates, music lessons and unexpected sports injuries she is attempting to write her second non-fiction book. Her first book, Living In A Locker Room: A Mom's Tale of Survival In A Houseful of Boys, will be available spring of 2005.

To read more of her columns and parenting tips visit www.paulaschmitt.com and for some much needed adult conversation send her an email.