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As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated.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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Pesticides and child development
Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities is an excellent free newsletter aimed at parents of kids with learning disabilities and ADHD. I have generally found it to be a good resource. In this issue, they linked to an article about pesticides and children. Did you know that every human tested now has pesticides in their body…
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Stress and learning
I am sort of a “learning research junkie”—I’ll read pretty much anything about all the new research into how our brains learn—and don’t learn. When I was working on my book, my publisher sent me pretty much any book that they thought might be of interest to my audience. I read all of them. I…
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Highly inappropriate, then and now
“That song is definitely not appropriate for children,” my ten-year-old daughter said to me the other day, hearing a song being played in a store. * My husband and I have been talking about the books we read as kids. Brave New World. 1984. Of Mice and Men. Great books, all about sex, much of…
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Facebook thinks I speak Spanish, and other musings about modern life
Hola… For months now I have been getting e-mails from Facebook, recommending I add as friends people I have never met. People whose first language is Spanish. People who don’t even live in the same country as me. OK, I speak passable caveman Spanish. I can read and understand, but when I go to speak,…
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A life photographed
In 2002, my husband and I got our first digital camera. After my activity of the last couple of weeks, I am looking at our lives before that year as an enormous slog through boxes of faded memories. My mother and I hatched a plan a few months ago to scan all of our family…