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The Queen of Cups Quits Her Day Job

May 12, 2010

A few weeks ago, I sat down with a friend. A Tarot deck lay between us. “Lay out two paths,” I said. “I want to see how my life goes, who I am, on either side of this decision.” She laid out the paths. On one side, I continued teaching preschool and writing as a [...]

Tagged as: blog, career, day, homeschooling, job, jobs, parenting, preschool, preschool teacher, quits, quitting, rio, serena, tarot reading, teaching preschool, wildflowers, writing

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Tiny Tutu Flash Mob!

April 13, 2010

Inspired by Tutus For Tanner, I decided I wanted to make a tutu to kick off the spring running season. Because making tutus is totally more fun than, you know, actually running. In fact, since a friend of mine had turned me on to the incredible ease of the No-Sew Tutu, I was hubristic enough [...]

Tagged as: baby tutu, ballet tutu, creative, dancewear, parenting, running, spring run, tulle, tutu, tutu party

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Book Review: Courageous Parents, Confident Kids

April 12, 2010

I am going to buy a copy of this book. This is ridiculous, right? I haven’t bought a book – other than Your Money, The Missing Manual, which features an interview with me – in years. I buy nothing new. I put all my dollars into debt repayment. I have an electronic copy of this [...]

Tagged as: books, childhood, communication, confident, courageous, freedom, kid courageous, kids, parenting, parenting experts, reading, reviews

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Look, Mom! I Can Ride My Bike!

April 6, 2010

Rio came home from school yesterday bubbling with spring fever. It was our first really warm spring day, and she couldn’t wait to get outside and plant things in the garden, ride her bike, visit her friends…you know, be a kid. I could totally wait to do all those things, because I was sick, sick, [...]

Tagged as: bike, bike riding, bikes, parenting, rio, serena, spring fever, training wheels, warm springs, wheels, wooden bike

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Lions and Toddlers and Bears!

March 30, 2010

So Martin took Serena to the Harvard Museum of Natural History the other day. Before she left, she told me Daddy had promised her they would see a lion. “I think it will be a scary lion, Mama,” she said. “I think maybe that lion is going to eat us.” “No, sweetie. The lion at [...]

Tagged as: parenting, play, serena

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Washing the Floors, Cinderella Style

March 22, 2010

The kids and I spent Friday afternoon washing the kitchen together in our bathing suits. Well, they were in their bathing suits. I’m a delicate flower and wore jeans and a long-sleeve T-shirt and a sweater and wool socks and a bemused expression. I’ve washed my floor with a wide variety of mops and gadgets, [...]

Tagged as: bathing suit, cloth diapers, culture, floor washing, green, kids, mop, parenting, simple, slow parenting, washing

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Speaking Of A Room Of One’s Own

March 17, 2010

This post brought to you by Rio. I had another whole screed planned about the business of blogging and how women are being consumed by big media and advertising agencies, but it will have to wait. Rio had a topic request for today. It went like this: Rio said, “What is the New York Times, [...]

Tagged as: family, funny, house project, parenting, rio

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A Blog of One’s Own

March 16, 2010

My corner of the blogosphere has been in an uproar over the New York Times article scathingly titled, “Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy. I’m Too Busy Building My Brand.” I snapped off a retort on Strollerderby yesterday, but now that I’ve had a chance to think (and read) more about it, I have something more personal [...]

Tagged as: bake sale, blog, blogs, feminism, internet, new york times article, parenting, power woman, rants, technology, tupperware parties, women, women writing, writing

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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 – [...]

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 [...]