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Articles in Parenting & Family
Before I had kids, I imagined a cozy scenario: Children, all clean from the bath and in soft jammies, snuggled up on my lap while they are enthralled by my fabulous story-telling skills before toddling …
Even before you bring your precious bundle of joy and sunshine home from the hospital, chances are, you made a decision about their sleeping arrangements. Baby’s bassinet/crib/Pack N’ Play was probably bought and set up …
I like to think that I am a good parent. I mean, I’ve kept three small people alive and well for six years and counting now, so that’s something. We read together, we go places …
There is nothing that makes me want to channel my inner Sylvia Plath and stick my head in a gas oven faster than the mounting social pressure to throw my children birthday parties. While I …
Sometime around David’s second birthday, my oh-so-helpful mother gave me a present. It was a pair of tiny red boxer shorts with little trucks on it. The message? David would be toilet training soon.
For years, …
Not all child abusers hurt their children using overt physical and emotional means. There is a large percentage of the population that inflicts deep, life-long psychic scars on their helpless children, often unintentionally. These people …
Once upon a time, not so long ago, hubby and I led a child-free existence. We were gainfully employed. We had few responsibilities beyond turning up at our white collar jobs in the morning, sober …
Starting grade school has meant starting sports for my boys. It’s also introduced us to a character who, until recently, we had only heard of on the news – the Psycho Sports Dad.
For 7-year-olds, sports …
Somewhere, there is some sort of rule that if you dwell in suburbia, you MUST put your little girls in ballet class. Being that we don’t really buck trends in our socio-demographic cohort, we foisted …
When you become a parent, you trade-off many aspects of your former life as an autonomous adult. The first thing that disappears, never to return, is sleep. Shortly after the double lines on the pee-stick …
