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As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated.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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Winning and losing
My son’s class had a banner year last year, as far as winning goes. Their environmental video project won a few big prizes and lots of kudos. Not only did they get on the free stuff train (Disney logo-gear!), but they got articles in the newspaper and money for the classroom. The same year, my…
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Wonder kids
I try not to respond to every dumb blog post I read — there’s just too much out there to tempt me! However, after I saw a link to this one, it led me to thinking about some responses I have, and I have an appreciation for any writing that leads me to think. So…
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That magical world…
I had the pleasure the other day of caring for three children who aren’t mine. I brought them to my parents’ farm, where there are endless new things to discover. The two older children are around the ages of mine, and they did what older children do: The two boys went off to horse around…
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The end of the autism/vaccine debate
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/09/07/p.autism.vaccine.debate/index.html There’s a question mark at the end of their headline, but I’m hoping that question mark is gone for all reasonable parents. “I took care of a child who died of measles encephalitis because he was not vaccinated. It was a horrible death that was needless and preventable, and those parents never forgave themselves…
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That's the way they used to make them
My husband decided that the perfect Labor Day outing for our family would be to a showing of the 1938 Errol Flynn/Olivia deHavilland version of Robin Hood. Our daughter is obsessed at the moment with knights and the middle ages, and our son says we never take him to movies. Perfect! I was, to tell…