Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
There’s been a lot of talk about co-sleeping lately as a number of recent deaths are making headlines. Public health officials are stating in no uncertain terms that co-sleeping is always dangerous and that babies should always be put to sleep in their cribs (on their backs, of course) no matter what. Attachment parenting types [...]
If you know me in real life, you know that I am an introverted extrovert, with a bit of a fiery streak. It takes me a lot to get worked up, or even angry, but when it happens, it isn’t pretty. Don’t make me angry. You won’t like me when I’m angry. It is so [...]
Take a look at this photo and spare a thought for Jessica Simpson, if you will. I remember being nine months pregnant and feeling like my body had been taken over by not one but three vast, quivering aliens. I remember being front-heavy and unable to stand up without mechanical assistance. I remember having to [...]
So Rango won Best Animated film at the Oscars last night. Now I love Johnny Depp as much as the next gal, but how was Barbie: A Fairy Secret not even nominated!? Actually, I was mostly just surprised that Rango came out last year. All of the controversy about characters smoking in the film feels [...]
Well, we don’t promote lying in our house, but we do leave crucial information out. Our kids are getting older and with that comes the idea that we should keep them in the loop on what’s going on. One example: They now understand the concept of time, so we can tell them about an upcoming [...]
The blogosphere has its knickers in a knot over this, the Atlanta, GA restaurant that has asked that people take their screaming kids outside to calm them down. Um. Am I the only one that isn’t bothered by this? Seriously. This makes total sense to me. In fact, it’s what I do anyway. If I’m [...]
Yesterday morning my husband and five-year-old son set out just after 6am for their hockey game. It was going to be exciting, my son had explained, because they’d played this team twice before and split the wins. It would also be exciting because it was finally his turn to play goalie again. And if it [...]
…for date nights with their husbands. I write a marriage column elsewhere (I am in NO WAY an expert – I just share what we have learned/read/done) and one thing I’ve rambled on about over there on many occasions is the need for a regular date night with your spouse. It doesn’t have to be [...]
I recently watched an episode of Parenthood, wherein Haddie Braverman suspects that her cousin Amber might be off having fun with her cute, young, politician boss, and goes and tells her own mother, who immediately jumps up and drives half the night to break up the pair of consenting adults before anything, I don’t know, [...]
My five-year-old son was sitting at the table yesterday afternoon, class list on hand, filling out his Valentine cards while my three year old was playing in the basement playroom by herself and the baby was napping upstairs in her crib. I was reading the paper with a coffee. How very French of me. In [...]
As you may have gathered from last week’s post, it’s been a hard couple of weeks for me. If you read my personal site, then you know the back-story, and if you haven’t read it I can sum it up: Life has hit us from all sides. The biggest struggle right now has been with [...]
Did you hear about the Swedish woman who crashed her car while she was breastfeeding her three-week old? GASP! HOW COULD SHE? THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE! CRIMINAL! LET US ALL GAWK AND POINT AND JUDGE. It’s true. She’s a 30-year-old mother of three who was driving with two of her children in their car seats, but [...]
It’s been a rough couple of weeks at my house. The second half of January saw my husband and I being hit from all sides emotionally, professionally, and physically. I usually muster up the enthusiasm to bounce back up and blaze on, but for the first time in my life, I haven’t had it in [...]
The house looks like someone picked it up and shook it. Deadline after deadline whizzes by my head, each one like a nuclear powered dragonfly armed with missiles. Emails sit unopened, telltale coffee rings adorn the countertop from when I frantically guzzled my almost-completely-cold coffee in one gulp just to get the caffeine in to [...]
I once gave an interview to a writerly friend about sex during pregnancy. I totally forgot about it until the wife of my husband’s work colleague came up to me and told me that she knew all about my sex life, she had read about it while at the doctor’s office. Yowza. But I think [...]
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