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Mom 2.0: A Defining Moment

by phdinparenting on February 19, 2010

When I saw people currently attending the Mom 2.0 Summit tweeting about this video, I had to watch, and then I had to share.

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Child’s Hierarchy of Needs

by phdinparenting on January 14, 2010

Parents often find it overwhelming trying to meet their children’s needs. With limited time, limited resources, and limited patience meeting all of their needs can seem like an impossible task. If we can’t do it all, where should we begin? Where should we focus? What is most important?
Last year, Meagan Francis from The Happiest Mom [...]

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Need your input on needs

by phdinparenting on January 11, 2010

I’m working on a post about needs. Parents’ needs. Children’s needs. But I need your help.

Which of your needs do you feel is most neglected since becoming a parent? Why? Are you okay with that? If not, do you plan to make any changes?

Which of your child’s needs do you find most difficult to meet? [...]

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Why I Don’t Spank

by phdinparenting on December 18, 2009

I’m taking a little bloggy vacation this week and letting you all be entertained by some of my favourite bloggers. This is a post by fellow Canadian blogger Amber from Strocel.com. She is the Queen of commenting on other people’s blogs, so please show her some comment love here and on her blog.

Before I had [...]

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IComLeavWe: Day 7

by phdinparenting on November 27, 2009

I made it! I wandered my way through IComLeavWe on speed. Left over 100 comments on blogs, ran through and cleaned up my blogroll, and had a bit of a break from my usual fare. I hope you all discovered some great posts and bloggers through my featured posts and others that I linked to [...]

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IComLeavWe: Day 6

by phdinparenting on November 26, 2009

It is the second to last day of IComLeavWe on speed. As I make my way through over 100 blogs this week, reconnecting and leaving comments, I hope to feature a couple of posts each day and also list the posts that I commented on.
Featured post – Do you parent differently in public?
How much do [...]

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How you should treat my child with special needs

by phdinparenting on September 10, 2009

This is a guest post by Ellen, a blogger I’m so glad I had the chance to meet at BlogHer 09.

This is my little boy, Max. He’s six.
At first glance, he may look like any other kid. And in many ways, he is like any other kid. He loves chocolate ice-cream, trucks, airplanes, his toy [...]

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Pregnancy and Parenting Books

by phdinparenting on August 28, 2009

About a year ago, a reader asked me if I would be willing to share a list of my favourite parenting books. I said “sure” and that is when I started working on page called My Parenting Library. Last night I finally found the time to finish an initial version of it.
My Parenting Library
You [...]

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That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Or does it?

by phdinparenting on August 25, 2009

When I wrote recently about my experience being bullied, a number of well meaning people noted, in Nietzsche style:
That which does not kill us makes us stronger
That is what we tell ourselves when we’ve gone through difficult times and survived. We want there to have been a purpose, a reason, why we suffered. That is [...]

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Hockey mom? No thanks.

by phdinparenting on August 19, 2009

I am Canadian.
I am Canadian and I don’t want to be a hockey mom.
It isn’t the early Saturday morning practices in a damp cold arena clutching my coffee mug that are deterring me. Not that I would particularly look forward to that, but if that was the worst of an otherwise rewarding and life changing [...]

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