Posted in Discussion of the day, Miscellaneous, Reflections on Jan 11th, 2010
I sometimes have visions of my children, decades from now, in grueling therapy sessions, trying to come to terms with everything I did wrong as a mother. I worry about all the ways in which I might be scarring them for life: What needs am I not meeting? Do they all feel loved enough? Who [...]
Posted in Discussion of the day, Health, Miscellaneous on Jan 5th, 2010
¤¤¤ Warning — if you are of the male persuasion, you may want to click elsewhere, unless you don’t mind reading about uteruses and their miraculous functions. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. ¤¤¤
When I said in my first post of 2010 that I plan to be more honest and personal in my blogging this [...]
Posted in Discussion of the day, Miscellaneous on Nov 11th, 2009
I was browsing through Tweets today for a bit when I ran across a link someone had posted to what was presumably a blog post. It was entitled, “Do you apologize to your kids?” I didn’t follow the link because I wanted to write my own thoughts on the subject without any other input.
My answer [...]
Posted in Discussion of the day on Nov 10th, 2009
This post goes along with my nursing tank top giveaway in a strange way, I suppose. My friend Jenny Fink over at Blogging ‘Bout Boys talks about an article she read by a mom of boys on why she’s raising her boys free of typical gender stereotypes. What mystified Jenny, and me as well, is [...]
Posted in Discussion of the day, Miscellaneous on Nov 2nd, 2009
My post from last February about homework in kindergarten has attracted such a large number of readers, I decided to revisit the subject.
This year I have another kindergartner and the homework that started to trickle in at the beginning of the year has been gaining speed by the week.
Last week, when I went on my [...]
Posted in Discussion of the day, Miscellaneous on Sep 30th, 2009
We know we can’t do everything, so why do we try?
More importantly, why do we constantly beat ourselves up for not being able to do it all? I know there are countless times a week when I mentally berate myself for not getting X, Y and Z done. Am I alone here or is this [...]
Posted in Discussion of the day on Sep 22nd, 2009
I’m finally coming back to the horrifically offensive piece published by Women’s Health regarding “bumpaholics” that I posted about a few weeks ago.
Along with the crimson vision-inspiring claims were a couple laughable ones. The author claims that part of the reason why women become bumpaholics is because they relish the attention they get while pregnant.
Come [...]
Posted in Discussion of the day on Sep 16th, 2009
Let me begin by saying that in general, I have nothing but praise for teachers. Goodness knows they deserve much more money and respect than they actually get. Their job is raw-to-the-bone tough and often thankless and I, for one, have a heap of a lot of respect and admiration for them. Teaching is something [...]
Posted in Discussion of the day, Miscellaneous on Jul 21st, 2009
My friend and colleague, Meagan Francis, who also happens to be the founder of Larger Families, a blog on which I’m a contributor, had a great essay on Babble.com the other day. I was happy when I read it and discovered that, as in just about every area I’ve discovered so far, she and I [...]
Posted in Discussion of the day, Miscellaneous on May 11th, 2009
Most of my kids are bleary-eyed and grumpy in the morning and on school mornings, I almost always have to drag the boys out of their beds. It’s not a very pleasant job, especially when my natural state in the morning is not exactly conducive to rising with the sun either.
By the time school is [...]
