Avant Parenting Archives
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Avant! Welcome to my parenting blog archives
As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated. However, there’s lots of good stuff here, much of it as true now as when it was written. Please feel free to browse, or follow these links: One last piece of parenting advice: Enjoy today even if it’s a rough…
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My soccer coach changed my life
My morning reading included My soccer coach changed my life, an opinion piece in the SF Chronicle. The writer makes the point that her involvement in soccer in high school taught her how to set her sights high and work hard toward a goal. She credits her soccer coach with her getting into UCBerkeley. I…
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Soccer Girl
There are a couple of areas of parenting in which I admit freely that I have given up. One of them was enrolling my kids in activities that would teach them the basics of group sports, especially those dreaded sports that depend on catching balls. You see, I grew up in a baseball and hockey…
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Crossing over the comfort zone
This month Growing Up in Santa Cruz published an article by me about Beach Safety. I have to admit that I was not comfortable with one aspect of it. As every parent in Santa Cruz probably remembers, we had a horrible tragedy here last year. Some children were playing in a sand cave at Natural…
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Hiring out and DIY
We went to the farmer’s market a couple of weeks ago and I just had to buy the beautiful little box of tiny new potatoes that I saw for sale. Of course I paid a premium for them, but I wanted them, oh, so desperately. So I paid. I cooked them in olive oil and…
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Musical Inspiration
It’s at this time of year every year that I look at my August calendar and say, Why, oh why am I so busy? I should just set aside the first couple of weeks of August for my personal passions, but every year I am so busy. Last year I had big family events. This…