I don’t talk very much about some of the attachment-related issues that our family deals with. I’m intentionally vague about it, but at the same time I’m not trying to sugar-coat anything. I don’t think it’s honoring to go into detail about all of the ways my child struggles with attachment, but at the same time, I don’t think it’s helpful to other adoptive families who read here to pretend like it isn’t a factor. So I will preface this post by making a sweeping generalization: kids who . . .
iphone photo dump 9/29/12
The kids call this “building a spaceship”. I really have no idea what a pile of children has to do with space travel, but there you go. After I took these photo they decided to reverse the order, with Karis on bottom and Jafta on top. It didn’t go so well. India finally learned to ride a bike without training wheels! She has been hesitant but finally gave it the college try after seeing her 3-year-old sister do it. It’s amazing what a little sibling rivalry can do in the motivation . . .
#facebookfail: the fix for facebook’s private message breach
All week long, I’ve been hearing this rumor that facebook was suddenly publishing private messages onto people’s facebook walls instead of in the inbox. It seems there is some glich that caused all private messages prior to 2010 to revert to wall posts – meaning that anything you send someone else prior to 2010 is now posted on their wall instead of in their inbox. This sounded so preposterous to me that I ignored it. I am always wary of hoaxes about facebook, and this seems alarmist and insane. . . .
moms of one child: how do you do it?
I feel like over the years, I’ve had friends with only one child look at my life and say, “How do you do it?” Raising for kids definitely has some unique challenges. There are times when it is mind-numbingly hard. But this month I am definitely realizing that despite all the chaos, there are some perks. Namely: playmates. Now that India and Kembe are in kindergarten, Karis and I have a couple days a week where it’s just the two of us. We had our children in rapid-fire succession, . . .
asking and answering at babble
I’ve been busy over at Babble this month. It’s funny – my column over there is supposed to be an advice column, but I end up asking as many questions as I answer. I guess I don’t have it all figured out, either! Imagine that. Here are some of the questions I’ve posed: Is Mean Girl Behavior Inevitable? In this post, I’m sharing how some mean-girl behavior I observed this summer made me seriously consider homeschooling. It’s disheartening to see how early this stuff is starting. What . . .
what I want you to know: being sexually abused by a youth pastor
What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. This guest post is by an anonymous reader. What I want you to know is that sexual assault does not come in the same form for every victim. I want you to know that a victim is a victim, no matter what race, size, age, or clothing . . .
best education apps for school-aged kids
In the past few weeks I shared some of my favorite apps for preschoolers, as well as some of my favorite apps for my kindergartners. I’ve also found some really great tools for my iphone that help reinforce what my son has been learning in 1st and 2nd grade. Many of the apps I will mention are appropriate for these grades and above, and any that are grade-specific are also available for every grade, so you can find the app that corresponds to your own child’s grade level. . . .
that’s what SHE said: starving children as object lessons, what adult adoptees want you to know, white racial anxiety, not talking on airplanes, and more . . .
A Primer on Full-Screen Living | zenhabits Like Jack, we think can hold two things in our mouths at once, but actually that’s a fantasy. We can’t taste the food while thinking about what we need to do later. Our mouths may be moving and the food might be swallowed, but there’s no awareness of how the food tastes. Instead, we’re switching back and forth between the planning and the tasting, like a dog going back and forth between a bone and a toy, not content to do just one thing at a . . .
mid-september photo dump
It may be mid-September but it is still HOT. We don’t have A/C. We’ve been doing what we can. Kids, man. They grow up so fast. Kembe and India had their first school project: to make a puzzle piece of pictures and words that describe them. I think it’s cute how completely different they are. Kembe’s is all about sports. India’s is all about the arts. Appaman sent us some new back-to-school threads. I am digging the beanies and may steal one of them for myself. Thanks, Appaman! . . .
how to watch season 3 of downton abbey in the united states
***UPDATED*** This post refers to Season 3, and you can now watch Downton Abbey Season 3 on Amazon.com. For info on Season 4, GO TO THIS POST. I might have mentioned that I’m a bit of a dork-fan about Downton Abbey. The UK season 3 premiere was last week and I was feeling all bitter about not being able to watch it for several months until PBS finally runs it in the US. I mean, the season 3 trailer looked so good, but how many times can a person watch a 60-second spot? Then I . . .
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