Category: Parenting
-
Fat thighs to volcano climbs
Moms I know say the most brilliant things. The other day I was talking to a friend while she was changing her baby’s diaper, and we were admiring the baby’s very chunky thighs and puffy cheeks. “Wouldn’t it be great if we valued these things in women, too?” my friend wondered aloud. Then she took…
-
Some thoughts about our sacred holiday, Labor Day
Labor Day is one heckuva holiday. First of all, your kids have probably already started back at school. What’s with starting school before Labor Day? In my day, Labor Day was the end of summer. It had meaning. Now what does it mean? It means it’s still summer, but your kids are stuck in school…
-
Those early years
I was speaking with a mom on the phone. It was a business call of sorts, but since we know each other and she knows I’m sympathetic, she called while her kids were in the tub. As you can imagine, our call was punctuated with instructions to her kids, the sounds of splashing, and kids…
-
PIWA for a six-year-old
In Growing Up in Santa Cruz this month I wrote an article about Positive Impact Wrestling Academy (PIWA). [Read the article here.] This organization is the brainchild of Reggie Roberts, the wrestling coach at Aptos High. When after years of working in substandard facilities he finally got to move his wrestlers into a well-equipped facility,…
-
Learning to live with our biology
Someone forwarded a New York Times article about successful dyslexics to an e-mail list I’m on. The article is about the high proportion of successful entrepreneurs who are dyslexic. According to the article, it’s likely that these people are successful because of and/or in spite of their disability. One of the people featured, Paul Orfalea,…