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Toddler World

December 14, 2011




Today, as part of the Carnival of Toddlers, I’m pleased to share a guest post by Bolaji Williams from www.ithinkyoushould.com about empowering our children. “Anyone can lead,” even our toddlers. Please join me in welcoming Bolaji. Toddlers are fascinating human beings for a variety of reasons, not least because so much of the ways in [...]

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I’m Scared of Age 10

November 25, 2011




I have friends who hate the newborn stage, I know people who fear the wrath of toddlers, and I understand all too well the parents who say it doesn’t get any worse than age three. We’re past that now. We’ve survived those stages, with all of the good and the bad. Our kids are now [...]

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Overworked, Debt-Laden Gen X Opting For No Kids

October 26, 2011




I originally posted this last week at Care2.com, but wanted to have a discussion about it with my readers too. I hope you’ll chime in with your thoughts. According to a new study by the Center for Work-Life Policy, 43 percent of Gen X women and 32 percent of Gen X men do not have [...]

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The Science of Evil and Empathy

July 30, 2011




The front page of today’s Globe and Mail jumped out at me. “Can science really explain evil?” the headline asked.  As an atheist and believer in the principles of attachment parenting, I was intrigued by both the question and the double-barreled definition of evil that accompanied it. evil [ee-vuhl] – adjective 1. morally wrong or [...]

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The Happiest Mom (New Book Release by Meagan Francis)

March 21, 2011




When Julian was little and I started spending time on attachment parenting forums, everyone was raving about Harvey Karp’s Happiest Baby on the Block. An anti-thesis to many of the baby trainers and baby schedulers, this book offered suggestions for creating a “fourth-trimester” like environment to help ease your baby’s transition into the world.  There [...]

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Outsourcing discipline?

February 15, 2011




If you and your kids are a fan of Robert Munsch stories, you’ve probably read Mortimer. Mortimer is a young boy who doesn’t want to go to sleep. He starts singing at the top of his lungs as soon as his mother says goodnight and closes the door. This is followed by his father, his [...]

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Why always the mother?

February 12, 2011




Researchers evidently think mothers are significantly more important than fathers. Perhaps I should be flattered, but I’m not. I’m annoyed at the amount of blame that gets explicitly and implicitly put on mothers and I’m annoyed at the way fathers are dismissed as insignificant influences on their children’s lives. In a post last week, I [...]

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Share The Important Things

February 1, 2011




We’ve been practicing our own brand of equally shared parenting since before Amy and Marc Vachon started their Equally Shared Parenting blog and wrote their Equally Shared Parenting book. While Amy and Marc’s approach emphasizes the importance of sharing every task, from earning money, to doing the laundry, to feeding the baby, our approach has [...]

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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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Dear Daughter

January 23, 2011




I’ve written a fair bit on this blog about the things I want to teach my children about sex, love, tolerance, religion, death, war, history, food, consumerism, feminism, empathy and more. So often it seems they are so busy being kids that they don’t have the time or the interest in listening. I try to [...]

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