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Hearing “I Love You”

December 21, 2010

My nine-year-old son has never said “I love you”. I honestly never gave it a second thought until I realized I was being told “I love you” multiple times daily by my five-year-old daughter. For the first time I began to wonder why my son never said it, neither to me nor to anybody else. [...]

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Consequences or Solutions?

November 16, 2010

My latest parenting struggle concerns my son. He is nine, and is an absolute joy to be around! He is funny, intelligent, kind, and courteous. He’s the kid I can count on to do what I ask him to do, the first time I ask it. He doesn’t complain about his chores, he adores his [...]

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How to Beat the Dinnertime Disconnect

October 6, 2010

A few nights ago, my family went to a popular local pizza restaurant. Soon after we were seated, a family of three was seated at the booth next to us. My eight year old son said that he recognized the boy in the other family from school; they were in the same grade. The girl [...]

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Balancing the Car

September 21, 2010

My family took our first major road trip this summer. We’ve taken smaller road trips before, but this year’s trip was to last 2 ½ weeks. My husband and I had been planning this trip for almost a year, and our whole family was looking forward to it! Our final destination was over 1000 miles [...]

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Sibling Cooperation

June 30, 2010

My kids are eight years old and five years old, and for the most part, I like to stay out of the their arguments.  Personally, I think there is greater skill to be gained by learning to work out disagreements and learn to cooperate than by me stepping in to solve everything. That being said, [...]

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Why Do You Breastfeed?

March 22, 2010

When I was pregnant with our first baby and I announced my intention to breastfeed, my husband had no opinion of his own about it, but supported me. “Whatever you want to do is fine!” When that baby was born several months later, he had multiple problems nursing in the beginning, and was a trial [...]

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Dinner Habit

February 18, 2010

Ten years ago, before we had kids, my husband and I would very often eat in front of the TV.  We enjoyed it, and we saw no reason to change.  But a couple of years later when the first baby came along, we knew we needed to make a switch. We knew the kind of [...]

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Christmas and Crisis

December 16, 2009

The only Christmas I was pregnant, my second pregnancy, was not one I spent celebrating with carols and singing and anticipation of things to come. Instead, I spent the time in a cramped van for two days, and laughing for the first time. When I was 19 weeks pregnant, my father-in-law passed away very suddenly [...]

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