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As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated.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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Recipe for happiness
I don’t know if it’s a fact of my upbringing or something hard-wired into me, but it’s the small things that get to me. Little details of life make me happy, and little details of life drive me up the wall. I am dismayed or angry but never depressed about war, poverty or hunger; a…
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What do you do to stay healthy?
My wonderful and insightful publisher here at Santa Cruz Parent, Parmalee, just sent out an honest and brave assessment of her health. I thought it was a wonderful way for her to start us into this holiday season. Like her, I find it (almost) possible to skip Halloween candy, but then along come all these…
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Scare tactics and lies don't help; reasonable concern does
Scaring people, telling them lies, and trotting out conspiracy theories about vaccines won’t help anyone, and it won’t make us stronger or smarter.
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Brainy kid fun
I subscribe to a rather unusual newsletter for kids. It’s called the Neuroscience for Kids newsletter. I heard about it through some mailing list or other. It seemed to fit my little scientists well. (Did I tell you about her Halloween costume? H1N1, of course! She said, “I want to be something really scary!”) The…
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Every day is Halloween
Last night we went to a Halloween party a friend’s house. My husband’s work is nearer to their house than ours, so he decided to ride his bike straight there, and thus ended up arriving before us. When I walked in, it would be an understatement to say that he was shocked. I’ve never been…