For parents who want to worry less and play more!
Our family recently returned from a visit to our former home in Southern California for New Year’s. While there we were fortunate to meet up at a favorite park with one of our oldest family-friends, people we’ve enjoyed countless play dates with over the years. Like our family, they have one ten-year-old […]
Posted on January 10th, 2006 by MomStar
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This is a subject that I feel like I’m becoming intimate with. It happens to be one of those subjects that I keep writing about because I keep reading about it—hence I think it qualifies as a trend. In this month’s “Parents” magazine there is an article called, “Preschool Pressure–Child-development experts worry that early academics […]
Posted on November 16th, 2005 by Sam
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My husband and I recently took a vacation to celebrate my 40th birthday and our 10th wedding anniversary. Coincidentally, it was also our first vacation without our two 5 year olds. The plan was to take the red-eye to Detroit, drop the kids off with my mom and dad and leave for the south of […]
Posted on October 9th, 2005 by Sam
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I was reading Allison’s post and have also been following Cindy Sheehan’s story in the news. It’s interesting how people have been so polarized by this woman’s plight. Even my own discussions with my husband have ended in bitter banter. Not because he’s defending Bush or the war but mainly because he thinks she’s […]
Posted on August 19th, 2005 by Sam
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I’ve been thinking a lot about Laura’s post on Ayelet Waldman, in fact it’s been quite stuck in my mind. So much so that during my recent “girls weekend” to Vancouver it became quite a topic of conversation at the dinner table (West–great restaurant.) In between the foamed tomato puree in a cup deemed to […]
Posted on June 7th, 2005 by Sam
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Our family moved last year from Seattle to Los Angeles.
We had lived in La-La Land once before, and, while LA seemed funny and somewhat strange then (valet parking at take-out restaurants, people with cars both larger and nicer than their homes), it has been a whole new trip as a parent. […]
Posted on May 24th, 2005 by Allison
Filed under: Daily Life, Guilt and Getting Over It, The Urban Parent |