Because natural isn't always possible — or easy.
Posted in Emotional development, Play, parenting on Mar 11th, 2010
Yesterday I decided to take the 20 minutes between when the big girl got off the bus and when the sitter came to try the whole bike riding thing again. Katelyn was thrilled. “No screaming,” she promised. We started down the street. She was shaky, but doing much better than she did the day before. [...]
Posted in Emotional development, parenting on Mar 10th, 2010
Katelyn is a screamer. When I do her hair in the morning. When she bumps herself. When I am trying to teach her how to ride a bike. She screams. A lot. I am not a screamer. My husband isn’t, either. (Note to husband: I never said I wasn’t a nag, though, Chris.) It’s very, [...]
Posted in Emotional development on Mar 4th, 2010
If you read other blogs, you’re probably familiar with the concept of Wordless Wednesday. People post a single, thought-provoking photo and nothing else. I’ve thought about trying it, but I can’t. I always want to tell you something about what I’ve posted. It’s the writer in me. What if I posted something and you didn’t [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Friendship on Feb 23rd, 2010
I used to be a phone person. The type of friend who would spend hours chatting about everything and nothing. Conversations could go on for hours, and often did. Then something happened. I got used to speaking to friends via email. I could send out messages in between doing other things and wait for the [...]
Posted in Emotional development on Feb 11th, 2010
At the beginning of the year Katelyn was obsessed with clubs. She’s come home almost every day telling us about this club or that club that she wanted to start. She’d rush off to school so excited about asking the other kids to join with her, but invariably she’d fail to sign people up. (She [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Vaccines, parenting on Feb 9th, 2010
This blog post is late. Should have been up this morning — I typically write the night before and schedule them to post automatically. However, my husband had his fourth surgery yesterday so I didn’t write last night. I’m glad I didn’t. This morning I made a big parenting mistake, and I’d love to hear [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Favorite Things Friday on Jan 22nd, 2010
My baby turned 19-months-old yesterday. About a week ago she’s started asking why whenever we told her something. “Keira, time to put your pajamas on.” “WHY?” “Because it’s late, and you need to go to sleep.” “WHY?” It is seriously so cute I can’t help but smile, even as she is driving me nuts with [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Going Green, Play on Jan 21st, 2010
Yesterday Keira and I took a mommy-and-me art class. When we got there, we played Play-Doh. Okay, easy enough. Not a huge environmental impact. But then came the projects.
The first one was drawing with creamy crayons on a piece of paper. I couldn’t find the ingredients online, but I can tell you that they were [...]
Posted in Emotional development on Jan 18th, 2010
I am a damaged person. Strong, willful, smart, successful, caring, understanding — all of the above. But also damaged. My father died on a Wednesday. I was sitting under the bed when a business associate confirmed he was dead. The adults in my life decided to keep that fact from me for a few days. [...]
Posted in Emotional development, toddlers on Jan 14th, 2010
Over the Christmas holidays we went to the Long Island Children’s Museum. While we were there, one of my friends ran into one of her old friends. The girl had a 9-month-old and a three-year-old. We started chatting. She asked me how my big girl liked becoming a big sister. She wanted to know, she [...]