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“Owning” Your Child’s Body
Growing up, it was customary in my family to kiss and hug our relatives goodbye. I do remember being told a few times to hug a relative I didn’t feel like hugging at the time, but it was mostly due to...
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Disappointing…
A good friend of my son’s is in a Boy Scout troop (well, Cub Scout webelo, to be exact) and my son has been bugging me to allow him to join the Cub Scouts. He wouldn’t be in the same troop as his...
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Monday Teeny Poll
88% of you were not affected by the Aurora shooting in making your movie-going decisions. Although from the comments, it just might be because you don’t really attend the movies a lot as a general...
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90% of you do not agree with the rather heavy-handed tactics planned by New York City to promote breastfeeding to new moms. While I think we can all agree that it would be ideal if everybody could...
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77% of you reacted favorably to Harrod’s attempt at a more gender-neutral toy area. 13% said it was easier to shop when there was a clear demarcation between girl and boy toys, and 4% of you didn’t...
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The Child Care Dilemma
As some of you may have read, the annual cost of child care in some states exceeds that of tuition for a four year degree. Let’s think about that for a second. I am all for paying childcare workers a...
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Monday Teeny Poll
So 43% of you are just fine with the Unbaby.me app that removes all bubbeh pics from your Facebook feed. 26% are like, whatever, 17% say if you dislike babies that much, just unfriend the person...
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Oh How the Pendulum Swings
It is difficult to believe in this age of attachment parenting that ideas such as this were once popular: Never hug and kiss them, never let them sit in your lap. If you must, kiss them once on the...
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Things I Hate: Football
There, I said it. Some sort of blasphemy here in the United States, I’m sure. I’m not a fan of either college or professional football, and never have been. I grew up in an area that did not in any...
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