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General Interest

Helping Children Become Independent

August 27, 2010

There are some things that simply drive us parents crazy: One is when your child insists on doing something that you want to do yourself. You are trying to feed your 1-year-old mashed potatoes and carrots, and he clamps his mouth shut while squashing the mixture through his fingers. You finally finish dressing your 3-year-old [...]

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Child Spacing and Attachment Parenting

August 16, 2010

My son is almost one!  Along with all the emotions that go along with my baby getting quantifiably older, a pretty unexpected one is emerging: uncertainty.  I am plagued with uncertainty because Sol’s turning one means that soon (hopefully) my cycles will return and we will think about trying to conceive again.  Originally we had [...]

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Lost Child, Lost Mom

July 27, 2010

Let me tell you this story of what happened the other day.  While we were out, my son disappeared from my sight for about 10 minutes.  I tell you, not because it’s entertaining, or to share my experience as a warning that “something like this could happen to you someday“, but because when this happened, [...]

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Weathering The Picky Eater Stage

July 12, 2010

The other day, I made lunch for myself and my two kids. Chicken sandwiches on wheat bread all around, apple sauce for them and a pickle for me. I was putting dirty utensils into the sink when I turned around to see that my 5 year old son had snatched the pickle off my plate, [...]

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Finding your Work / Parenting Balance as a Single Dad

July 9, 2010

Work/life balance isn’t a challenge exclusive to single dads – the vast majority of single moms I know work too – but I think that finding balance between work and parenting is tougher for men. Decades after the modern feminist movement began, our culture still reflects the belief in men as so-called breadwinners and women [...]

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Follow The Leader

July 7, 2010

Learning something when you’ve been told you need to know it is pretty boring sometimes. Following your child’s lead and letting natural interests develop is a lot more interesting. My almost 6-year-old is having a lot of fun with this large map, finding the places he has heard about, comparing how far they are from Baltimore, [...]

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Wearing a Toddler

July 5, 2010

My son Jacob is 22 months old. He loves to run and climb and jump and throw balls and all those things that toddlers do. He is no longer the babe in arms that he was for the first months of my life, carried from place to place by others. Today, he motors under his [...]

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Chip, Chip, Chip

July 2, 2010

Last night, I put the kids to bed, poured some wine, popped in a movie and picked up my knitting. Then I heard it: the awful sound of something, or someone, falling down the stairs. All of them. THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP! Sure enough, it was my 3 year old, who had gotten up to [...]

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