parenting

tuesday and everything after

May 27, 2009

It’s Tuesday. That means I should write a blog post. Tuesday is blog post day. Why Tuesday? Well, weekends are out – I’m usually too busy to write, and everyone’s too busy to read. Monday is too “back to work” and Friday is all “weekend’s here!” Wednesday is “hump day” and Thursday is “almost Friday!” [...]

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keeping our kids safe

May 6, 2009

A friend (who is currently childless, incidentally) sent me this link:Stop worrying about your children! Maybe she thinks I worry too much? It’s an article on Salon.com by Katharine Mieszkowski, profiling Lenore Skenazy of freerangekids.com. Here’s the summary: Kids today are just as safe as they were in the ’70s, says “Free-Range Kids” author Lenore [...]

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old school

April 30, 2009

Owen is already learning you can’t go home again, even if he doesn’t understand that yet. We’ve had pretty good child care luck. When Owen was born in 2005, Lisa took seven months off. (Before you get all excited and start applying for her job, this was seven months without pay. Lisa’s an opera stage [...]

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do not underestimate the power of the tummy

April 18, 2009

Owen is obsessed with Star Wars. Owen is 3 3/4 (he’ll correct you if you say he’s 3 1/2), and obsessed with Star Wars. He’s probably too young for this fairly violent (and completely awesome) series of films (and cartoons – did you know there were cartoons?!). But we love it, and thought he would [...]

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