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• parenting, Spot

  Was it the Mountain Dew I drank in the first trimester? Spot has the Other “D” Syndrome

  07.29.08 | Permalink | 20 Comments

  Dick is ready (oh, is he ready) to have another kid. Last week he said for the first time that we need to have another try at making a boy. This is almost a relief to me, because before when he always said the right things about how happy he is that we have three [...]

• book review, parenting

  Would You Let Your Seven-year Old Read Books Six & Seven of Harry Potter?

  07.28.08 | Permalink | 33 Comments

  First, a confession. I never got past book two of the Harry Potter series. Not because they weren’t engaging, but because I got lazy, I guess. Where an 800+ page book used to seem like a challenge, now it honestly makes me a little tired. And it’s not my favorite genre. That would be romance [...]

• parenting, peer pressure, society, tv shows

  Miley Cyrus: “You’re the grown up; you’re supposed to tell me what to do!”

  04.28.08 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  The blogosphere is in an uproar, and not because the guy who sang Achy Breaky Heart is (still) famous. I don’t know that much about Miley Cyrus, beyond the fact that she has a hit show on Disney, Hannah Montana, and an IMAX movie that mega-outsold U2′s recent IMAX movie (at least at our local [...]

• parenting, school violence

  Amen

  04.02.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Here’s my comment to Melanie’s Hell in a Handbasket post, about the Georgia third-graders who made an elaborate plan to attack their teacher: I don’t know if it is better or not that some of the kids might have thought that they could duct tape and stab their teacher and then she would be able [...]

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