Because natural isn't always possible — or easy.
Posted in Emotional development, parenting on Jul 15th, 2010
At one time in my life I was slightly bitter that we didn’t have stuff growing up. The old linoleum floor that had half its pattern missing. The hand-me-down couches. The limited wardrobe. The old television set. No air conditioning. Having to hear about how poor we are. (If my mother told us once she [...]
Posted in Birth, Health, Meditation, parenting, Pregnancy on Jun 21st, 2010
Two years ago today I was a week overdue with my second child. I had 48 hours left before they would have to induce me, my midwife told me. The high risk doctor had already blasted me the day prior saying he would have induced me at 37 weeks. Two years ago today I woke [...]
Posted in Emotional development, toddlers on Jun 14th, 2010
Before Big Girl was born I questioned my parenting potential. I spent months, actually, discussing this very topic with a therapist. Would I be a good parent? Would I screw up any child I had because I was, well, a little screwed up? I agonized over it. And yet when she was born, I wondered [...]
Posted in parenting on Jun 11th, 2010
Preface: We’re home and my little one is sleeping…but I wasn’t always this calm today… I put my little one down for a nap around 2 p.m. Ten minutes later I heard a loud thud come from her room. I knew before I opened the door what had happened. She jumped out of the crib. [...]
I am a freelancer but I have several regular clients — companies I work for on an ongoing basis. One of those clients scheduled an important meeting for today. Usually, this wouldn’t be a big deal except today it was — a big deal, that is. Today’s meeting overlapped with my big girl’s spelling bee. [...]
Posted in Emotional development, parenting on Jun 3rd, 2010
My little girls have spent a lot of time with their daddy. While my husband was working from home he took my little girl to mommy-and-me classes. He took her to parks. They went to playdates with my friends. He also spent quality time with the big girl. He got her up and out every [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Play, School and education on May 27th, 2010
My big girl’s play was today. I missed the 1 p.m. performance. I had a meeting I couldn’t get out of. She was the narrator. She was supposed to run onto the stage and start the play. Instead of running, though she tripped, or so my mother and husband told me. She went down hard, [...]
Posted in Cool sites, Favorite Things Friday, parenting on May 7th, 2010
I’ve got some great sites, but I had to catch you all up on one of my non-favorite things this Friday afternoon: The job that got away. My husband got sick back in August. Those of you who have been reading for a while know that. At the time he had his own business. As [...]
Posted in Emotional development, parenting, School and education on Apr 15th, 2010
Which Breakfast Club character were you in high school? (Yes, I know I am borrowing from a Facebook application.) I was Allison. The loner. The weirdo. The quiet, scared one. Now I’m more of an Andrew — love my Spin classes — but back then, yes, I was an Allison. I got treated like one, [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Play, Safety, School and education on Apr 14th, 2010
As regular readers might remember Big Girl learned to ride her bike a few weeks ago. As of this past weekend she was doing really well, but still needed to master some of the more difficult aspects of the task: turns, getting started on her own, weaving. So on Saturday I set out to teach [...]