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As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated.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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Up Past my Bedtime
No offense to all the other moms I know, but homeschooling moms are just the coolest. I just got back from the monthly homeschooling support group at the Educational Resource Center, and it’s enough to make you want to go even if you don’t homeschool. In fact, some moms who turn up actually aren’t homeschooling…yet…or…
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Poetic license
I started writing poetry relatively late in my writing life. I suppose I tried a few times when I was in high school, but creative writing was not exactly stressed in our school and we never studied poetry at all. Perhaps that’s why I dropped out! It wasn’t until I was in my thirties and…
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Inspiration: a New Stapler
Yesterday my daughter and I went to Staples and bought…a new stapler. It felt a little self-referential. Anyway, she chose it (it’s pink, you might have guessed), but didn’t seem all that excited about it. Our other stapler, the one I must have brought to college with me, died. So it was time. When we…
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Capoeira, Whole Body Learning
My daughter’s homeschool program brings in artists through the Spectra program. Usually they are visual artists, but occasionally there’s something different. Papiba and his Capoeira class is definitely Something Different. The class starts with a little Portuguese lesson, introducing the kids to a few basic words and numbers. Then they stretch, and Papiba introduces more…
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Behavioral problems: Resources
These are the resources that I used in writing my upcoming articles on non-drug therapies for treating behavioral problems in children. (See previous blog.) An Alternative View of Behavioral Problems in Children Resources: Organizations and Publications: Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics American Journal of Psychiatry American Academy of Pediatrics Integrative Pediatrics Council Pediatrics Taste…