June 2009

Cooling Off

June 29, 2009




I need to cool off. Many of my readers (supportive and otherwise) need to cool off. So I give you, cooling off. Let’s all jump in the water and splash around a bit.

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Let’s try another analogy

June 28, 2009




A lot of people objected to my last post for a lot of different reasons.I addressed a lot of them in the comments, but I wanted to rehash one of them, using some new, less offensive and perhaps more easily understood analogies this time. A number of people said that if you have tried gentle [...]

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Sex and Sleep

June 26, 2009




Photo credit: “At the end of a very long day” by KitLKat on flickr There was some banter the other day on twitter comparing sleep with sex. I’m not sure if it originated with or ended with Ann Douglas, but the conversation at some point came around to the intro to her book  Sleep Solutions [...]

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(Not quite) Wordless Wednesday: A Tale of Two Dinners

June 24, 2009




Jack Spratt could eat no fat. his wife could eat no lean. So between the two of them, they licked the platter clean. Sounds close to the tale of my two little monkeys with diametrically opposed taste buds. Ironically, the only thing that appeared on both plates last night is also the only thing neither [...]

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Book Review: Slow Death by Rubber Duck (by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie)

June 23, 2009




With fear and interest I picked up a copy of this book on a lovely visit to Chapters in Toronto with my friends Sam from babyREADY and Lindsay from Kickypants. Overview The byline for the book Slow Death by Rubber Duck is “how the toxic chemistry of everyday life affects our health“. The book systematically [...]

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LLL is too…

June 22, 2009




Today I’m happy to have one of my fellow Students of Parenting guest posting about LLL. Give Heather a big welcome and show her some love in the comments. I love La Leche League (LLL). I’ve been going almost every month since I was 4 months pregnant. I even stopped by LLL headquarters last August [...]

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Nursing in Public Breastfeeding Carnival

June 22, 2009




The theme for the June Carnival of Breastfeeding is nursing in public. I put up my post last week and today it has been linked up with more than 20 other posts on nursing in public. Please be sure to check them out (the links are at the bottom of the post: Would you, could [...]

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An attached dad

June 20, 2009




So often when people talk about attachment parenting they are thinking about the nurturing role that the mother plays. In our house, the mothering role has been an important one, but the fathering role has been critical too.  We are partners in raising our kids, not a lead parent and a second fiddle. I value [...]

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Attachment parenting is not…

June 18, 2009




There are so many misconceptions out there about attachment parenting. Let me try to debunk them with the help of some great posts and articles: Attachment parenting is not a set of rules. Attachment parenting is not permissive parenting. Attachment parenting is not helicopter parenting or over-parenting. Attachment parenting is not spoiling. Attachment parenting is [...]

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Would you, could you nurse in public?

June 15, 2009




Welcome Carnival of Breastfeeding Readers! Enjoy this Green Eggs and Ham parody. Moral of the story is, give nursing in public a try, it is easier than you think. You can do it, anytime, anywhere. Check the bottom of the post for links to the other Carnival of Breastfeeding submissions. Nursing in public (a breastfeeding [...]

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