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Bedtime Stories of Lightness and Darkness

January 28, 2011




I’m away at the Blissdom Conference this week and decided to use the opportunity to feature some fabulous guest posts from bloggers I love. This one, by Kelly from KellyNaturally.com shares a story about talking to your kids about difficult topics. ~~~~~ Mom, have you ever been to Mexico? Yes, Daddy and I have been before. Is [...]

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Nine Ideas to Meaningfully Reconnect with Your Child

January 25, 2011




I'm away at the Blissdom Conference this week and decided to use the opportunity to feature some fabulous guest posts from bloggers I love. This first one, by Dionna from Code Name Mama, will be especially helpful for all of us mamas at Blissdom this week as we prepare to return home and reconnect. ~~~~~~ [...]

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Outrage: When parents cross the line

January 19, 2011




Where's the line? The imaginary line. The line between "do what is best for your family" and "that is cruel, abusive, neglectful." Where is it?  Do you have one in your head? That dividing line between "not my cup of tea" and "wrong, wrong, wrong"? I do. Sometimes. It shifts and moves a bit, but [...]

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Who wins? Playing games with kids

January 13, 2011




My American expat in Germany friend Yelli (I miss everyone in Berlin!) from 50% of my DNA had a question that she hoped I would answer. She wrote: I wanted to know if you let your children win games? This is coming up more and more often in our household and to be honest, I [...]

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It's all the same

January 9, 2011




It's all the same, it seems. More breastfeeding pictures and pages getting banned from facebook (Momzelle, Leaky Boob, Kari Bundy). More slimy tactics by formula companies to get their products into the mouths of babies. More blog conferences announcing unreputable companies as sponsors (Nestle and more) after I've booked a flight and purchased a ticket. [...]

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PhD in Parenting 2010 Commenting Awards

January 3, 2011




There are a lot of blog awards out there. A lot of them are popularity contests, rewarding those who can get a lot of their friends to click on a "vote" button within a specific time period. But some are different. In 2010, we had the first ever juried Canadian Weblog Awards. I am honoured [...]

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I keep pouring

December 23, 2010




Have you ever poured your child a glass of milk, put the milk away, and sat down only to hear "Mama, can I have some more milk?" So you take the empty glass, fill it up, put the milk away, sit down again, and then hear "Mama, I'm still thirsty." In his book, Playful Parenting, [...]

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Ready for Christmas?

December 18, 2010




To those readers celebrating Christmas or just anticipating time off from work and school to be together with their family, I thought I would throw together a few posts that you may find helpful while I continue working on my next in-depth post. Establishing Holiday Traditions Everyone wants the holidays to be a special time [...]

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Nature? Nurture? Neither? More?

December 15, 2010




After writing my last post, I had a lot of interesting side discussions about the old nature versus nurture debate. Some of those discussions happened in the comments on my last post. Some of them happened on twitter. Some of them happened in person. While I think I have made it fairly clear that I [...]

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Parenting styles to the extreme

December 2, 2010




When I wrote last week about Erica Jong's essay on attachment parenting, a lot of people commented both here and elsewhere that one of the big problems in her article is that she confused attachment parenting with helicopter parenting. Certainly, the two are not the same. In fact, they belong on different axes altogether. While [...]

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