Parenting | Modern Home Modern Baby

Archive for 'Parenting'

Guys and Dolls: Letting Your Son Play With Dolls

Posted on19. Aug, 2010 by Kate.

Letting a little boy play with dolls will certainly turn him gay. Don’t you think? I mean, when Free To Be…You and Me became a TV show in 1974, ABC thought so because they wanted the segment on William’s Doll cut. They couldn’t take the chance that every boy in America would see that and [...]

Continue Reading

When Your Child Says “I Don’t Love You”

Posted on18. Aug, 2010 by Kate.

I gave birth to a Daddy’s girl. I don’t know why, but I suspect that it was because the doctor who put my just born baby on my chest, faced the baby directly at Daddy. As I looked down to stare into those perfect blue eyes, I saw her fuzzy damp head instead. Daddy got [...]

Continue Reading

The Push and Pull of Toddlerhood

Posted on16. Aug, 2010 by Kate.

My toddler is firmly in the pushing and pulling stage, and not how you might think. She regularly takes out a grocery bag and “helps” me bring the bag from the front door to the kitchen. (FYI, I’ve usually emptied it already or filled it with light, indestructible groceries.) She’ll take the handles and start [...]

Continue Reading

Babies: A Documentary About Babies

Posted on04. Aug, 2010 by Kate.

Have you seen the documentary “Babies“? Me either. It’s a documentary about babies in four different cultures: Japan, Namibia, Mongolia and the US. Supposedly it’s telling how similarly the babies are from each culture. But, I hear that the only culture where the moms seem happy toiling over their children is in Namibia. The Namibian [...]

Continue Reading

Brat Proofing 101

Posted on02. Aug, 2010 by Kate.

I’ve talked about Betsy Brown Braun’s book, You’re Not the Boss of Me: Brat-Proofing Your Four- to Twelve-Year-Old Child before here and I just wanted to take a minute to tell you that I’m still referring to this book and will for years to come, I think. Now, my children are 2 1/2 and 6 [...]

Continue Reading

Children and Happiness: Do They Co-Exist?

Posted on22. Jul, 2010 by Kate.

“Economically worthless but emotionally priceless.” Ouch. That’s how Princeton sociologist, Viviana Zeltizer describes children in a recent New York Magazine article on why parents don’t like parenting. Sure, children offer a glimpse into the lofty-side of the sublime, but they also encapsulate the devastating nature of the sublime as well. According to the article, having [...]

Continue Reading

iParenting – Are You Too Plugged In?

Posted on19. Jul, 2010 by Kate.

Ever find yourself grunting out a one syllable answer to your child while you’ve got your face buried in the screen of your phone? Is your kid hanging precariously off the jungle gym while you answer email? Should we call this new phenomenon “iParenting”? I see it all the time at the playground, but never [...]

Continue Reading

Laura Bennett’s ‘Didn’t I Feed You Yesterday?’

Posted on16. Jul, 2010 by Kate.

I’m a Project Runway nut (so is my husband, but don’t tell anyone!) so when I saw Didn’t I Feed You Yesterday? by Laura Bennett, the fashion mommy of the show a few seasons ago, I got all excited. Now, I must tell you that I haven’t read the book yet but it looks pretty [...]

Continue Reading

Explaining Race To Your Children With Gummy Bunnies

Posted on15. Jul, 2010 by Kate.

Same same, but different. When my husband was traveling in Thailand years back, he saw an ad slogan for a chain of hotels that said, “same same, but different.” He chalked the oddness of it to a translation snafu, but we’ve been joking around with that saying ever since. You’d be amazed at how much [...]

Continue Reading

Fun With Toddlers, Fun At Frat Parties

Posted on14. Jul, 2010 by Kate.

My sister sent me this hilarious post on Suburban Snapshots about how having a toddler was like going to a frat party and it brought back memories of beer, boys and bashes. Here are a few of my favorites from the post and from the comments: It’s best not to assume that the person closest [...]

Continue Reading

7 Tips To Keep Your Kids Safe on the Internet

Posted on09. Jul, 2010 by Kate.

While my kids are not yet Internet savvy – though my oldest one has started pointing to my computer saying “no, myyyyy computer” – I came across a few tips on how to keep your kids safe on the internet and I think they are worth sharing. And it’s not just computers, it’s iPads, iPhones, [...]

Continue Reading

Two Is The Magic Number

Posted on06. Jul, 2010 by Kate.

How many kids does it take to create the ideal family? This is a trick question, right? I mean, nothing can tell me the “best” number of kids to have, least of all a study done on Norwegian men and women. However, that’s exactly what new research reported in the United Kingdom’s Daily Mail claims: [...]

Continue Reading

Today’s New Fatherhood

Posted on02. Jul, 2010 by Kate.

I’m reminded of an analogy I’ve thought of often in our household. Fred Astaire was a wicked good dancer. Ginger Rogers? Well, she did everything he did, but backwards and in heels. According to a recent New York Times article, it looks like Fred just donned his first pair of heels and is figuring out [...]