Category: Parenting
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Parenting tip #324: Don’t be indispensable
When we had our first child, there were naturally things that I did better or things that my husband did better. And quickly, as new exhausted parents, we fell into a trap: We let ourselves become indispensable. It took me years to understand how dangerous this trap is. A few successes in packing snacks for…
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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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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…