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parenting
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parenting
The hardest thing I have done in a month
08.12.09 | Permalink | 12 CommentsI minded my own business. Sure, I had to get up and move finally in order to do it, but I DID IT. At pack meeting tonight (which if you don’t know what a pack meeting is, just be grateful and don’t ask), there was a crying baby. A one-month old. Mom fed her on [...]
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motherhood, parenting
If I ever left my kids
06.23.09 | Permalink | 18 CommentsIt would probably be at the Super WalMart, after a marathon shopping match during the pre-dinner rush, with a cart full of life-sustaining staples like water balloons, brownie mix, and Mountain Dew, on a day that the children have been no more bothersome than usual and that I have forgotten my wallet in the car. [...]
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childhood, parenting
Too Much Sorry
06.18.09 | Permalink | 27 CommentsI learned how to say “I’m sorry” from my dad. I didn’t always love him when I was a kid. I was afraid of his contempt, and he wasn’t often patient or easygoing. But he taught me how to say “I’m sorry,” because he always said he was sorry. And he proved he was sorry [...]
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parenting
Darwin wasn’t a mother
04.09.09 | Permalink | 11 CommentsIt’s time to thin my plants, now that the first true leaves have appeared. I’m to cut back all but the strongest seedling in each pellet. I can’t do it. Maybe this is why I’m not a vegetarian, except I don’t envision any problem eating the zucchini and tomatoes and basil my garden is going [...]
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parenting
Mommy, I got new flipflops at Dee – Eye
04.01.09 | Permalink | 28 CommentsYesterday Susan told Spot “You don’t have to say everything you do,” which was funny coming from last year’s winner of the flapping tongue macaroni trophy. I told Dick that Spot was making me crazy on Monday, and he said, “With the over-talking?” and I said of course not, I love being an accredited repository [...]
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parenting
I’m not gonna lie to you
01.28.09 | Permalink | 11 CommentsIf you can’t sing, I’ll tell you. If you need to get some exercise, I’ll tell you. If your talents don’t exactly extend to macrame, I’ll tell you. If you’re not good at basketball, I’ll tell you. If your iambic hexameter sucks, I’ll tell you. Sally, Susan, and Spot, I’m not gonna lie to you. [...]
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parenting
The Curious Case of the Never-Good-Enough Mother
01.08.09 | Permalink | 46 CommentsToday I went to a mandatory court appearance with my good friend “Annie.” A month ago Annie left her two children, ages 2 and 4, in her (not-running) locked car for twelve minutes while she ran into Best Buy. The car was warm, as she had been running errands all morning. It was about noon [...]
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