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As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated.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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Another saga of Busy Mommy
So I wrote a couple of days ago, or was that yesterday, about being overly busy. When I get overly busy, two things happen: One is that I cease remembering people’s names and other proper nouns. It’s like that’s the part of my brain that gets wiped to store excess information. When I’m really busy,…
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Is it kids, parents, society, the water?
I keep a little virtual sticky note on my computer of ideas for my blog. A long-running idea is summed up with “kids are different these days,” something someone said to me. I’ve been pondering it. Clearly something is different, but what is it? A friend e-mailed me because she saw a banner ad on…
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More busy Mommy
I got an e-mail from a friend today asking, “How do you have time to do everything you’re doing?” The short answer is, I don’t. Another friend e-mailed me that since she started working again (at home, but in her office), her youngest daughter complains that she’s always busy. She is! How do we do…
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Budgetary thoughts
Just a few thoughts before I go help my six-year-old make dinner. (She chose the menu and did the shopping!) A writing friend e-mailed me this very sensible proposal: I hope that this budget / tax shakeout may turn out to be good for us long term. I would like to see all levels of…
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Summer reading!
My kids and I went down to the library today to sign up for the Summer Reading Program at the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. This is a yearly treat for my kids: they love to read, and someone pays them to do it! How it works is the kids record what they’ve read through the…