As one dear person put it, “People without children may like children, may want them, may be unable to have them and/or may have lost a child.” Which is a great reminder for us all not to assume anything. In the supermarket, at the restaurant and on airplanes, we have all endured the parenting of others. Continue reading
Sometimes we resort to it late in the night. Sometimes parents make up insane little songs when we need some way to distract the rugrats from throwing something, splashing something else, or rolling off of another. We buy tiny slivers of sanity, one mangled meter at a time. And the currency is dignity. Continue reading
Since I am a bad mother, my kid watches a bunch of TV. Or at least is in the room while it’s on. Sometimes she watches, sometimes we color, play with blocks, stalk the cats, play with trucks, knock down towers made of blocks… It started just a few months in, I’m ashamed to admit. Well shy of the two years the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends before a kid is exposed to television. What can I say, she wakes up super early. Continue reading
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