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As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated.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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Love Cats
I will never forget when I went to visit my older sister in North Carolina after she’d had her first baby. She was not only four years older than me; she started the whole marriage and family thing a decade younger than I did. So I was still quite young and not at all thinking…
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Hunt and Peck
Another thing I’ve been wanting to write about in relation to my articles about alternative treatments for behavior problems is Omega-3. (See my Resource List for links to research I did.) Omega-3 is a fat found most commonly in fish, but also in a variety of other sources. Ask your parent or grandparent about something…
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Messy Science
I grew up in a town in the Midwest that happened to be the world headquarters for Dow Chemical Company. We may have had a senile high school French teacher who gave the same test over and over, but our chemistry teacher had a PhD. It would be interesting to find out how much effect…
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Science Fair
Our daughter’s homeschool program had its science fair today. There were about twelve exhibits. Two of them were group projects done during the kids’ regular class days. Given that her program has close to a hundred kids, this is probably average participation in voluntary science-related projects in schools. Which is to say, Americans don’t like…
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Asynchronicity
It was one of those days. We were in the midst of a thoroughly normal, peaceful morning. My husband had dropped our son at the bus stop, our daughter had eaten a great breakfast, and we seemed poised for a lovely homeschooling day. Then came the topknot. I can’t really explain to you, except that…