For all you parents who think nothing good can come from your teen’s constant text messaging, you should consider the story of 15-year-old Kate Moore. Moore recently walked away from the U.S. National Texting Championship in New York with $50,000 …
Does any parent ever feel like they are doing a good job? I know there are aspects of parenting that I’d like help with. Parenting coach Sue Atkins can help you with the challenges and demands of being a parent. If you enter this competition, you could win a signed copy of Sue Atkin’s Raising Happy Children [...]
Alec Baldwin (with Marci Klein) at the UJA-Federation of New York’s Leadership awards dinner at Pier Sixty in New York City on June 6th. Images thanks to WENN.com . Depending on how you look at it, Alec Baldwin is either really gutsy, totally insane, or able to learn from his mistakes. Or [...]
So, after a long silence, I’m back. I have been feeling much better, although I am now getting to the point where I feel huge, so the period of comfort was fleeting. I have come through my company’s busy season in one piece. We do overnight high school graduation parties, so June is crazy busy. Last year I worked the parties themselves; this year, because I didn’t think I could be...
I love this And yet, as if from nowhere, the paranoia rises. Should Simeon be able to roller blade ? And are we 'holding him back' because we are not giving him this brand of bottled water? ;)
Okay. I know it’s not June anymore. Can you pretend with me that it is? I actually picked all the nominees in June, just got behind on posting. And all these parents are definitely HIP. MommyTwinGirls is rethinking her policy about children watching TV. I laughed when I read [...] Related posts: Heroes In Parenting, May 2009 Heroes In Parenting, 4th Edition Heroes In Parenting
With BlogHer approaching, I'm reminded of Sleep Is for the Weak and the journey I took to edit it and find a publisher for it. It premiered last year at BlogHer '08 with a book signing I'll never forget. Photo...
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No sweets before dinner, no junk food for snacks at school – these are just a couple of rules that parents try to enforce on their kids so that they can have healthy eating habits. But what if your child is a picky eater? What parenting help tips are you supposed to keep in [...]
Today has been about cleaning, sorting, organising. We have actually managed to reclaim our old bedroom, which is destined to return to being Parenting Suite Mk II (it's the only room big enough for bed and bassinet/crib and change table, etc.) while our current room at the back of the house will be Anti-Parenting Escape Pod and Guest Room. Not so much nesting as 'clearing away six old nests to make...
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A short list of hyperbolic parenting, safety, and science news to freak you out over the weekend: If pollution caused premature births, it would be enough. If preeclampsia occurred more frequently in Long Beach, it would be enough. But holy...
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The director, 73, and wife Soon-Yi are parents to Manzie, nine, and Bechet, ten. Here he discusses his parenting attitude to religion, honesty, and the birds and the bees.
The intensity of smile, school yearbooks photos and successful marriages are correlated according to a study . I specially like that yearbook pictures could be a good predictor of a person's marriage. Overall, the results indicate that people who frown in photos are five times more likely to get a divorce than people who smile. While the connection is striking, the researchers stress that they can't...
My apologies for blog silence. A recent decision to create a "to do" list instead of simply agonising about those things left undone has been helpful in terms of attention to details, but less so in terms of allowing space when there is nothing actually pressing. So though there haven't been that many extraordinary events (OK so our new curate was ordained deacon last Sunday...but still...