I’ve read about the obesity epidemic in America. I just didn’t realize that Legos was trying to help promote it….
Posted on June 22nd, 2005 by Laura Norman
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San Francisco Mom: Boycott Legos?
Everybody wants a prodigy, don’t they?
What an amazing thing but what an awesome responsibility. Marc Yu’s grandparents are immigrants from China probably like many looking for the American dream. But what Marc wants more than anything in the world is to play piano at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, and eventually he’d like to play at […]
Posted on June 22nd, 2005 by Sam
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LA Mama: Fighting the Gerbil In All Of Us
After reading the review of the latest “stop the madness” parenting book, HomeCourt Advantage, I experienced a brief moment of relief. I thought “I don’t have to be carpool gerbil! I can get off the little metal wheel and out of my minivan.”
Dr Lehman’s treatise on sane parenting is one more small […]
Posted on June 20th, 2005 by Allison
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Summer Solstice Fun
My husband and I have been going to the summer solstice parade in Freemont, Washington ever since we moved here ten years ago. An artist friend of ours told us about it and said that it was where all the “creativity in Seattle” came together. Of course, she forgot to mention the naked bike […]
Posted on June 20th, 2005 by Sam
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This time, it’s for real: Save NPR and PBS
You know that email petition that keeps circulating about how Congress is slashing funding for NPR and PBS? Well, now it’s actually true. (Really. Check at the bottom if you don’t believe me.) Sign the petition telling Congress to save NPR and PBS.
A House panel has voted to eliminate all public funding for NPR […]
Posted on June 17th, 2005 by Sam
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The Curse of the Mommy Club
Or the “mummy” club as they’d call it in the UK. Did you ever stop to think how many in your current peer group have kids? Now part of that is natural–your children play with their children etc. but part of it apparently is by design. Somehow the minute I had children I felt like […]
Posted on June 14th, 2005 by Sam
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