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Better late than never, here are last week’s Links

March 8, 2010

I had a sudden attack of Playing Outside and Taking Long Naps over the weekend, so no posts. Here’s what I was up to last week:
Working Parents Are Exhausted – Strollerderby – Almost 60 percent of middle-class households have both parents working outside the home. And we’re exhausted by it.
Protecting Baby’s Hearing – Strollerderby – [...]

Tagged as: abortion, abortion politics, abortions, baby, child rearing, childhood, education, family, ferber method, human development, middle class, parenting, sex ed, sleep, sleep train, sleeping, social issues, weekly link round-up

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Sleep Training: Cruel or Kind?

March 3, 2010

Sleep has been the albatross around the neck of my parenting life for the past six years.
I have a piece up at Strollerderby this week about sleep training.
Seems that parents who feel OK about letting their babies cry it out are more successful at getting their little ones to sleep. I am not that parent.
Before [...]

Tagged as: baby crying, beds, child abuse, child rearing, childhood, co sleeping, cry, family, ferber method, human development, human interest, infancy, infant bed, infant crying, night nurses, parenting, sleep, sleep train, sleeping

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Why I Quit Everything

March 2, 2010

Last September, when my five-year-old started kindergarten, she also went to swimming lessons twice a week, gymnastics class once a week, music class on Saturday mornings, and a weekly play group at the community growing center.
My toddler had a lighter schedule, comprised of only swim lessons and a weekly playdate at the library. I had [...]

Tagged as: family, free-range parenting, frugality, gymnastics class, kids, kids love, kids running, parenting, playdates, quits, rio, serena, simple living, slow parenting, swim classes, swim lessons

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Nerve endings

February 19, 2010

Well, hello there Internet. It’s been an interesting 15 minutes. I hope some of you are enjoying this blog, and will hang around for the bits that are not ranting at big corporations (which is most of it, really).
Apparently people really love to hate on airlines. And on traveling moms. I had no idea I’d [...]

Tagged as: airline, airline reservations, horror story, mom, nerve, parenting, people, rant, travel, travel mom, travel tips, us airways

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US Airways: Polite, Still Not Helpful

February 17, 2010

I had a long talk with a very nice woman from US Airways customer relations today. Cynthia offered me a Very Nice Apology, and empathized with my situation. She’s a mom too, and appreciates how scary and stressful it can be to have someone try to separate you from your kids. She said that having [...]

Tagged as: parenting, travel

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US Airways Hates Families and Kids

February 15, 2010

If you have kids, don’t fly on US Airways. We were on three flights of theirs yesterday as we slowly made our way from Boston to Tucson. Not once was I assigned a seat near my kids.
Now, I confess that when I saw I had a boarding pass for seat 5D and my kids both [...]

Tagged as: parenting, rants, travel

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Hide and Seek

February 11, 2010

The girls are playing hide-n-seek in my bedroom. They are taking turns beautifully. This is how their game works:
Rio: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25, 26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50, 51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75, 76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89…uh…um…Mama, what comes after 89?
Me: 90.
Rio: Oh! yeah, 90. Well, sometimes I need to think for a long time about what number comes next and then I remember but then I get confused [...]

Tagged as: family, parenting, play, rio, serena

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Well, hello there English Language!

January 26, 2010

Last time Serena saw a dog, a few weeks ago, she said, “Mama! Dog! Woof-woof!”
Today, as we were getting out of the car, two dogs fenced into a nearby yard came running up and barked at us. Serena stopped and stared. She took a few steps towards the dogs, who were waiting eagerly at the [...]

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A Possibly Perfect Saturday

January 23, 2010

It’s been a pretty chaotic week, with everyone finally (!) settling back into normal routines after all the holiday madness. Last night I went to bed staggeringly tired and emotionally burned out, wondering how this whole “life” thing was ever supposed to work.
It was supposed to work like today. The kids slept beautifully through the [...]

Tagged as: family, parenting, serena

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