Parenting By The Book

By on July 25, 2011 6 Comments
Books

I don’t know what I’m doing most of the time.  As a parent, I mean. (Oh, who am I kidding. I don’t know what I’m doing at pretty much anything.) I muddle through most days, and up to now, as long as everyone’s alive by bedtime I often consider the day a raging success. But [...]

From Beer To Maternity: Bad Mom Books

By on September 3, 2010 Leave a Comment
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The following is a sponsored post by Maggie Lamond Simone who is a total Bad Moms Club Contender. She is the author of the book From Beer to Maternity, which captures the wit and wisdom of her adventurous life as a late-blooming adult, and then wife, and then parent, and through it she shares the [...]

Bad Books: P.S. I Hate It Here

By on July 5, 2010 5 Comments
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How many of you went to camp as a kid? I did. After my parents divorced, my mother sent me to a day camp through the summer so she could work, and I really enjoyed it, for the most part. I loved playing Capture the Flag and singing camp songs (many of which I still [...]

Inappropriate Children’s Books: Golden Books Edition

By on May 19, 2010 Leave a Comment
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Who remembers Golden Books as a child? The slender story books bound in that ever-familiar gold-print binding that only became better with age. I had stacks of them, inherited from my older siblings, plus my childhood doctor and dentist offices had many heavily abused editions usually found among the piles of Highlights and Owl magazines.

Senor Caca Is Not On Our Reading List

By on March 30, 2010 Leave a Comment
joined_at_birth

Sometimes I read an article and think that it cannot be possibly true. Someone, I tell myself, must be pulling the Internet’s leg because something this ridiculous cannot exist. Take, for instance, this post on creepy children’s books. I had to verify that some of these texts are actual published works,  and much to my [...]