Category: Parenting
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Love Her and Let Her Go
I received some pearls of wisdom the other day about discipline from a tattooed great-grandmother who works at my daughter’s homeschool program. My wise woman told me that she never had preschoolers in her care give her trouble about walking in a line on sidewalks. When I expressed my doubt that she’d be able to…
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Real Estate Envy
When we started looking for a house to live in, we were living a different life. Both my husband and I had spent years in relationships that didn’t work, and all the while we were friends. When we both ended up single at the same time, we finally started dating. We got sick of what…
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The Parenting Trap
My mom tells me that when she and my dad were on the way home from the hospital with their first child, they said, What do we do now? and started to laugh. What else could they do? They were Catholics in 1961, and somehow they were just supposed to know how to be a…
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Da Vinci at the Tech
We went to see the Leonardo da Vinci exhibit at the Tech Museum (http://thetech.org/) in San Jose last weekend. I had heard it was amazing, and I hadn’t really thought about preparing for it. I think the Tech would do families a good turn by posting some information about what kids should know going into…
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Kids and Vitamins
This just in: vitamins aren’t good for you. In case you think I’m rehashing an old Woody Allen movie, read the New York Times – http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/news-keeps-getting-worse-for-vitamins/?em . In many of the studies they cite, taking vitamin supplements actually LOWERED the person’s life expectancy. This is something I have a little disagreement about with many of…