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As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated.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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Back from beyond…
Yes, it’s true, my blog is back online. Sorta. There was a major miscommunication, and now I need to rebuild the whole thing. So until then, please enjoy my blog posts back at my old blog site, and I will be adding more here when I can.
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Understanding how scientists make decisions about your child's health
There’s been a theme running through conversations I’ve had lately. I and some of my more scientific friends have been noticing a general lack of understanding about how science works and what makes the scientific method worth considering. First, a caveat. We all know that doctors have been wrong. So giving examples of when a…
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How to kill a great book
Last year for his birthday, a friend gave my son a movie theater gift card. My son’s school has kids from this side of the hill and the other side, two different counties with two different area codes. It was a great gift. Unfortunately, we don’t have that chain in our county. So it sat…
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Gifted misunderstandings
A friend forwarded me a link to this article. I think she thought that I wasn’t busy enough this weekend, and that instead of cleaning the toilets and vacuuming (which is what I’m supposed to be doing right now), I should write a passioned response to yet another blogger who doesn’t get it! She was…
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Scientists need help! Moms to the rescue!
I read recently that scientists are hard at work in laboratories trying to make the H1N1 (swine) flu virus become more virulent. They are trying to figure out whether it could become more virulent on its own by trying to force it to do so in the lab. Some of these scientists may be moms,…