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As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated.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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Getting body, heart, and soul back
I was explaining to another mom recently about how I felt now that my kids are older, and I have gone through the process of getting my body back (not having a kid hanging on me all the time) and my soul back (feeling like my emotions are tightly wrapped up in theirs). She said…
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What’s a parent to do about health and diet?
I think parents around the Internet responded strongly to the article Puberty Before Age 10: A New Normal?, published in the New York Times, because it hit on how vulnerable we feel when it comes to making decisions about food. It’s extremely hard to decide what to believe on the issue of how to feed…
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Neither good nor bad, but very different
Recently I spoke about blogging at my son’s journalism class, and we talked about a lot of aspects of how journalists’ lives have changed due to the Internet. I talked about how my blogging is probably the equivalent of the ‘zines that used to pass between people who shared similar interest. When I was in…
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iPotty, uPotty, we all scream for iPotty!
It’s hard to judge which toy is really the worst one released each year—the competition is so stiff! But new screen-based toys for babies are so offensive that it was easy to give this one the award.
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Enter the big girl
I just gave away my daughter’s play kitchen. This may not sound very monumental, but in our house, it’s huge. She’s about to turn 11. The play kitchen is the correct height for a 3-year-old. A few years ago, I first broached the idea that if she got rid of it, she might have room…