For parents who want to worry less and play more!
I know that this is going to sound strange to some but I’d love to know if anyone else has had this experience with their 4 or 5 year olds. For the last couple of years my daughter seems to be obsessed with death. Not her own of course, but with mortality issues in general. […]
Posted on November 27th, 2005 by Sam
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Today’s Wall Street Journal is the best proof yet that parenting is rife with trends and gospel that will inevitably morph into new conventions just as semi-permanent. Dr. Ferber, of “Ferberizing”, and Dr. Sears, of “co-sleeping”, are both coming out with more moderate views on how babies, and parents, ought to sleep. […]
Posted on November 15th, 2005 by MomStar
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Our moment of ascendancy has arrived. New magazines like Violet and Cookie are being targeted toward hip parents. The latest Anthropologie catalogue features a lovely mom and dad with a set of artfully distressed tots lounging near the Christmas tree. The retro code is completely clear, in the loving looks exchanges between […]
Posted on November 10th, 2005 by MomStar
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I have at times been crotchety in espousing my parenting values on this blog (aka Swooning for the 1950’s), so it should be no surprise that the NYTimes article about Chicago coffee houses requesting good behavior from their toddler patrons was one I couldn’t resist.
Here I clamber back up on my Crusty […]
Posted on November 9th, 2005 by Allison
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When will it end? Does this happen to anyone else. Being sick when your kids aren’t just seems wholly and completely unfair. I’ve never been big on vitamins or supplements but I’m starting to consider it. Anyone know a way to get rid of this crud?
Posted on October 18th, 2005 by Sam
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Hard to believe but after just having been sick with a cold not even a month and a half ago I’m sick again. How can this be happening? It’s no rare strain of Asian bird flu, its likely not anything serious but I’m SICK again. I’m SICK of being SICK. How are you supposed to […]
Posted on October 13th, 2005 by Sam
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