{click the title to read the whole post} Mr. Curry and Lola Moon | Flux Capacitor He has overidden the status of blood with the status of the heart.For me, this great joy will be an everlasting one: that I, who had a father I struggle to comprehend, a brilliant, abusive and ill man who dictacted my childhood with his fierce rages and lies and abuse, was able to provide my daughter with the kind of father I had always dreamed of having: one who lives day by day in his family as if there is . . .
BRAVE: A Parent's Guide to Disney/Pixar's Latest Movie
Brave is Pixar’s 13th feature film release, and strikes a perfect balance between the stunning visuals of Pixar films and the classic storytelling of Disney’s quintessential princess movies. Modern parents will be delighted, however, to discover that Brave is a princess movie centering on a strong mother-daughter relationship, with nary a Prince Charming in sight. Brave focuses in on a plucky heroine named Merida; a brave and adventurous young woman who is slated to be betrothed in order to . . .
do you really play with your kids?
I’ve written about this before, but one of the more difficult aspects of motherhood for me has been reconciling the disparity between the mother I envisioned I would be, and the mother that I really am. My husband and I had a long and bumpy road to becoming parents, so I had a long time to imagine myself as a mother. And while I’ve lived up to some of the expectations that I’ve held for myself, I’ve also been surprised by some of the aspects of motherhood that have been most challenging for . . .
hot topics: teens getting bikini waxes, and facebook shame as discipline
This week over at Babble Voices, I'm tackling some hot-button parenting issues and I'd love you to weigh in. In this post, I'm talking teen girls and bikini waxes, and specifically asking if this is a harmless form of hair removal, or an example of teens being sexualized too soon. In another post, I'm talking about this picture that is making the social media rounds: We are seeing more and more examples of parents taking to social media to discipline their kids . . . but is this such a good . . .
an ode to Mark
My husband often takes a backseat role on this blog, but it certainly isn’t because he takes a backseat role in our family. I don’t write about him as much, in part because much of what I do here is an exploration of my own processes and feelings, and in part because recounting the silly things a child says or does is not quite as cute when done to a spouse. I try to protect his privacy a bit, even though there have been moments that I just couldn’t resist sharing. (Ahem, 3-D Chuck . . .
what I want you to know: worrying about how my daughters will perceive my plastic surgery
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. I am an educated woman. I didn't want to look like Barbie or one of Hugh Hefner's girls. I didn't want to be perfect. I just wanted to get back a little bit of what two pregnancies and . . .
that’s what SHE said: breaking up with parents, people-pleasing, toxic charity, contentment, and more . . .
{click on the title to read the full post} alleviate | Livesay [Haiti] Weblog Any group (faith based or otherwise) that wants to invest in alleviating the orphan crisis should consider finding ways to keep families together before operating a program that institutionalizes children. Removing children from their families and placing them in an institution doesn't so much alleviate the problem as it does change the problem. The Case for Breaking Up With Your Parents | The Chronicle of . . .
let’s talk about sex, baby
For my first advice column over at Babble Voices, I’m talking sex. Post-baby, post-vasectomy sex. Several readers asked about how they can try to get their mojo back for their husbands. You can read what I had to say about that here. Also a few of you asked about how to subscribe to the feed of my weekly column with Babble. Click this icon for the feed: . . .
iphone photo dump: 6/6/12
It’s been a while since I’ve cleared the photos off my phone. I’ve got about a month’s worth of photos I need to save – here are a few of them. Let’s start with kids with messy faces. Karis is a big fan of black beans. She practically inhales them, which means that any time we go to Wahoos or Café Rio or any other number of joints that serve black beans, this is what she looks like midway through her meal. India got to pick out of a prize bin at her scouting program, and she . . .
what I want you to know: when it comes to losing a child, time does not heal
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 Alyssa. I want people to know that even though it's been 8 years since my daughter died at age 3 months, I still grieve. I wish people understood that not talking about it doesn't help me. It angers me and . . .
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