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As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated.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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Making a greener home
At some event we went to within the last few months, my husband noticed a booth sponsored by PG&E and AMBAG — The Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments. They had a program called Energy Watch, which has funding from PG&E to do free home energy audits. We’re always interested in figuring out what we…
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The big stink
If a desperate family of four comes knocking on your door in the next day or two, consider giving them a break. They might be running from the stench. The stench of what, you might ask? Well, as they say, whaddya got? It starts like this: The husband gets up in the middle of the…
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Talking the talk, clicking the click
So another day in my life: I was interested in getting a book for my kids. OK, if you must know, the Manga Guide to Electricity. My 7-year-old will read anything that has bubbles coming out of mouths, so I figure she might as well be learning about electricity while she’s doing it! I did…
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The big switcheroo
As longtime readers of this blog know, I live a double life. Days I’m a homeschooling mom with my seven-year-old daughter. Nights and weekends I get my eleven-year-old son back from school and I’m a schooling mom, asking what happened today in that mysterious, far-away land called “school.” It’s a weird sort of existence, sort…
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Read and support our libraries!
Santa Cruz Public Library’s Summer Reading Program is back up and running again this year. Part of the way that the library gets funding for this is by proving active interest in it, i.e. kids signing up and doing it! Signing up is easy: Either go to your branch or to the library website, and…