Parenting

Super Bowl Sunday

February 3, 2012
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A few weeks ago, our house was football central. My husband’s 49ers were up against my beloved Saints for a championship game. A Super Bowl lead up. Now, let me back up and say that football is rarely, if ever, on in our house. Mainly because we spend Sunday’s at the in-laws. Also, we’re fair [...]

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Hilarious by Louis C.K.

February 2, 2012
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Haven’t laughed this hard in a while. I almost peed my pants and my cheeks ached. It’s raunchy. And vulgar. And right on. Louis C. K. you are indeed brilliant if not sick. Completely sick. Good thing you can tell how much he genuinely loves his kids, even if he pretends otherwise. Also, I love [...]

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Invest In Your Child’s Education, Don’t Save For College

February 1, 2012
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That’s right. That’s what I said. Don’t save for college. Why on earth would we, as parents, save, save, save for college when our children learn how to learn in KINDERGARTEN? You remember that book, All I Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten? Spend now…while your child’s mind is forming. As parents, we owe [...]

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2012 Baby Trends To Watch For

February 1, 2012
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I must admit, I hated the Jimmy Kimmel Halloween candy prank. Yes, it was funny but it was also mean spirited. I know, I’m probably considered a downer mom for that, but seriously…Hey, let’s steal something precious to Johnny! Let’s be completely inconsiderate of his feelings! How funny! I’m sure he won’t take away anything [...]

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Teaching Your Child Character: Grit

January 31, 2012
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Oh, if only my Dad were alive to read this. Seriously. If he had one refrain to capture my teenage-hood it would be “finish what you started,” sung in a Metallica pounding anthem way and decidedly not a Broadway play, uplifting way. Finish what you started Finish what you started Finish what you started And [...]

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Puddle Jumpin’

January 30, 2012
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It’s been, like, forever since it’s rained here in Northern California. But not any more. It’s puddle jumpin’ time! Oh, to be a toddler again. Did you know that in Iceland,

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Go Ahead, Gossip Girl

January 30, 2012
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“If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.” That’s what my mama taught me. But she might have been wrong. Sorry Mom, I know you meant well, but according to a new study out but the University of California, Berkeley, gossiping is good for us. Certain types of gossiping. If you let [...]

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Transform, Even Little Things

January 27, 2012
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OK, time for a mental health break. A good friend once tried to convince me that the bad things that happen in life are just information. Information. Simple really. Something to allow you to think on and then decide which way to go. Where I get all tight and anxious, she sees the opportunity to [...]

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Walk To School

January 26, 2012
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Do you let your child walk to school? Alone? I don’t but, in my defense, my girl is 4 so she’s not exactly developmentally ready. Not yet anyway. Though I’m not sure I would regardless. I was listening to a preschool director give a talk about her school and she brought up a point that [...]

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Teaching Your Child Character: Zest

January 25, 2012
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Character teaching time. Today it’s all about zest! Zeal! Joie de vivre! OK, enough with the (!) exclamation points! Let me back up and say this is all based on a character report card developed by KIPP’s and Riverdale Country School in New York City that I learned about from the New York Times. A [...]

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Your Child’s First Dentist Visit

January 23, 2012
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Another milestone has passed – proof that you can’t keep your baby from growing up: the first dental exam. I don’t know if we were early or late with it, but we scheduled our younger daughter’s first visit to the dentist just after her 2nd birthday. We’ve been brushing her teeth (I should really say [...]

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Story Time

January 19, 2012
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Tell me, do you tell stories to your kids? I mean off the cuff, from memory, stumble around making a wordy fool of yourself stories without the aid of a book or TV? It’s super hard. Super. Hard. When my older daughter was 2 and just became a big sister, she stopped eating. Not in [...]

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Quick Cheese Sauce

January 17, 2012
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For most moms a quick cheese sauce is easy: Kraft. Open packet. Add milk. Done. But! There is another way. Something *almost* as quick and infinitely yummier and healthier. Though, we’re talking cheese sauce so I use the term ‘healthy’ loosely. I thought of this – well, I’m lying, my sister-in-law thought of this – [...]

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