Category: Parenting
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Coming out better in the end
I just wrote the hardest article I’ve ever written. A mom I was talking to at a party suggested an idea that sounded great: write about how families cope when a parent gets a life-threatening illness. And the idea was great. But it was a lot of work. First of all, you just don’t want…
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Twenty-first Century Mom
OK, please hold your applause till I’m finished with my statement: Today I cleaned out my recipe book. OK, you can applaud, yell, scream, or laugh, as it suits you. But seriously, sometimes I’m just in the mood to get things done. I don’t remember which feminist it was — she who responded to a…
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Very Cranky Mommy Speaks
This morning my six-year-old insisted on going with me on my morning walk. She does this occasionally. Sometimes she does it so often we have to invoke the “every other day” rule. If I don’t get a brisk walk in nearly every morning, my back gives out and I become Very Cranky Mommy. And if…
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What Is Success?
I’ve written before about the difficulties, peculiarities, and comedies that come about when you have two children with completely different, unusual personalities. Raising my son for four years did little to prepare us for the challenge of raising our daughter, except for the baby equipment we got to reuse! Unlike our son, our daughter is…
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Eat the Pretty Food!
My older sister is much better about organic and natural than I am. I have to admit, when I’m faced with paying a huge amount of money for organic milk vs. being able to afford a cool new piece of jewelry? Hm. Gotta think long and hard about that one. Anyway, she sent me a…