Inside Motherhood

March 18th, 2007

When the going gets tough, the tough make fun of themselves

There’s nothing quite like Sunday. The alarm clocks are off, the street is quiet, there’s one more day of leisure before the weekday grind begins again…
the kid is still up at 6:30AM.
As he was on Saturday morning, and as he will be again on Monday morning. Now, I actually knew a woman who was quite […]

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March 1st, 2007

ten favorite things to do with a kid

Cheap, or free, these are some of the ways we love to spend our days. In this super-scheduled, lightning fast world we live, it’s nice to slow down every once in a while.

pack a picnic and have dinnner at the park
Play fence music
make cookies
build pillow forts
balsa wood airplanes
movie night, complete with popcorn
library, for story time […]

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February 26th, 2007

guns don’t kill people, people kill people

You know, if most little boys pick up a Barbie doll, they will bend her legs perpendicular to her body and start shooting with her. My kid, almost four, has a very intricate fantasy world full of super heroes, policemen, Jedi Knights and Medaeval Knights, all rolled into one huge ball of mini-testosterone. I don’t […]

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February 24th, 2007

Some resources for mothers

You know, the b5media family has some great resources for mothers. I love reading Babylune, and Kate’s got a recent article about sleep that really hit home. And Breastfeeding 1-2-3 is thinking about sleep strategies for the toddler set.
Play Library always has a great idea or three, especially when it comes to toys. […]

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February 16th, 2007

Monster B Gone

A friend of mine’s son was having trouble with the monsters in his room. I sympathise. It seems we had a monster infestation for a while, there. But we got rid of them.
My son would ask if there were any monsters in his room, and I’d always say, “Nope.” Which would be followed by that […]

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February 13th, 2007

learning disabilities are a detour, not a roadblock

I sat on the ground with all the other Architecture students, trying to sketch a perspective. I’d never drawn, before. It was awful. I could see the vista before me, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t translate the vision to the page. The left and right sides of my brain were completely […]

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