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Friday Five: 5 ways to beat the morning rush
Every morning at my house is an exhausting race. My daughter refuses to get dressed. She won’t eat. My husband hits the snooze button 57.5 times. And somehow I have to find time to pack lunches and...
View ArticleA poem to my daughter
When I was pregnant and decorating the nursery, I wrote a poem to my daughter. It’s been hanging in her room for 5 years now. I walk by it several times a day and never really read it. Well, last night...
View ArticleAre the French better parents?
Have you heard the latest? Apparently Americans are bad parents. But, wait! Just as they did when they helpfully showed us how not to get fat (despite France’s own rising obesity rate), the French...
View ArticleSmart girl thwarts attempted kidnapping
Have you seen the story of the quick-thinking 7-year-old Georgia girl who fought back when a man tried to kidnap her as she and her mother were shopping in Walmart? Brittney Baxter was looking at toys...
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On Trayvon Martin and a mom’s worst fear
Sean Bell, Trayvon Martin, Troy Davis, Oscar GrantAlthough I have obsessively read and re-read news stories about Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old Miami boy shot dead last month by a self-proclaimed...
View ArticleOh, it’s time for the Mommy Wars again?
If you stay at home with your kids, great. If you do double duty by working outside your home and then do the stuff that keeps your household going in your off-hours, that’s great, too. I could kick...
View ArticleSad news: Avery, “bucket list” baby, has died
Avery Canahuati, the 5-month-old baby girl who came to the nation’s notice after her parents created a “bucket list” of things for her to see and do before an incurable genetic disease took her life,...
View ArticleColorado theater shooting tough to explain to a teen
I had decided to take Friday off to spend some time with my 15-year-old son; we planned to go out to lunch and then see a movie. I woke up to the horrific news of the theater shootings in Aurora,...
View ArticleWhat would cause you to disown a child?
Earlier this week, one of the thousands of posters on Reddit put up a heartbreaking post in which he reports that he was disowned by his father five years ago after confessing his homosexuality. In a...
View ArticleCaring for kids and parents — at the same time
As fascinated as I am by childcare matters, there’s another kind of care I worry about a lot: Elder care. I’m at an age when my parents and other relatives are growing older and require more of my time...
View ArticleNope, girls shouldn’t have to ‘act like ladies’
Every now and then, I catch myself telling my daughter to do something “like a lady.” “Sit like a lady,” I say, when she’s so engrossed in play that she doesn’t recognize that her clothes are in...
View ArticleHow does alcohol affect your parenting?
How often do you reach for a drink while dealing with your kids? A report from a British charity indicates that drinking could be a serious problem among parents of young children. That study found...
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No, being an older parent isn’t the worst thing in the world
Sometimes older parents can, in fact, be better parents(photo via babyshrink.com).It seems as though every month there’s a new study or article designed to convince parents that everything they’ve ever...
View ArticleKeeping our children safe in the face of violence
All children deserve to be safe, and well-fed and cared for by the people who love them. Can we all agree on that? Jonylah Watkins, whose story is posted above, was fed and cared for — but she wasn’t...
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