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As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated.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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Not a good place for an intervention
We ditched the kids today at my parents’ house. It was already full of cousins — what’s two more? I felt a little guilty, but it was great. I got all my work done, and we went out for a fabulous dinner. Limoncello is the new incarnation of a restaurant we used to love, Bella…
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Another Day in the Life
Yesterday I got up to no e-mail and no cellphone reception! Oh, horrors! How could I survive? Good thing the kids and I had decided that on this day of our “Staycation,” we would go to the Aquarium. So without further ado or hair-pulling, we were off to Monterey, where they had both Internet access…
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Even the Bubbles are Pink
I’ve been thinking about my shampoo. It’s not really even my shampoo. My mother gave it to me because it makes her scalp itch. So I tried it out and my scalp seems fine. Whether or not it’s given me super-model hair…you can be the judge of that. What’s particularly interesting about this shampoo is…
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Here’s To My Health!
I have decided to take everyone’s advice, all at once. I will be the perfect consumer of medical advice, turning my body into my Temple of Medical Correctness. I’ll start with today’s news: Slippery Slope! One Tiny Truffle Can Trigger Desire For More Treats. Boy, did we have to start with chocolate? Well, they say…
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Too Much Time on her Hands
Some people have too much time on their hands. This is a pretty broad statement that includes a lot of people, but today it’s pointed at Judith Warner of the New York Times. She wrote the sort of article that people write when they want to get other people incensed. Not, I will point out,…