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Galileo 17 Jun 2008 | 12:19 pm
As the toddler walked proudly in the living room, he proclaimed that he had "found my telescope", as he peered through the cardboard tube of an empty toilet paper roll. It was more cute before I walk...
Thursday Pony Blogging 9 May 2008 | 12:44 pm
A beautiful setting My biggest flaw as a parent so far is that I am a big coward. Oh, not for myself, for my children. Yes, I am the one at the playground, beach, forest, constantly droning "Be caref...
Is this thing on? 7 Apr 2008 | 12:36 am
I learned something today. When you're 2½, the color of your sippy cup is of paramount importance.
Why? 9 Mar 2008 | 04:59 am
Jrette. is 2½. She has reached the age when "Why?" is the question for everything. Everything I say to her, it seems, leads to a "why?" Of course, the next stage is represented by Jr., at 8½, who no ...
Monday Book Blogging 4 Mar 2008 | 03:01 pm
The power of parent propaganda is potent and persuasive (and I like alliteration when I'm tired). I recently caught myself poo-poo-ing teenage girl singers who do that phony cutesy-sexy thing that I c...
Monday Book Blogging 26 Feb 2008 | 04:19 pm
Here we go again! Late with my homework! What kind of example am I setting for my children?? Well, I have a good excuse: I've been practicin' for life as a solo performer (I've got a month until Esch...
On Religion 26 Feb 2008 | 01:10 am
As a DFH with secularist tendencies, my children have rarely been to church. I realized this yesterday as I dressed them for one of their rare forays there--and not even to what I, with what I recogni...
The Oscars! 25 Feb 2008 | 03:05 pm
I grew up in southern California. Atrios is right: we do watch the Oscars with civic pride. Of course, since I grew up in a family that communicates by quoting movies, we were even more invested in th...
Confessions: The Worst Parent in the World! 20 Feb 2008 | 04:01 am
Somewhere in the process of raising cadres for the revolution, one realizes that they have done something so heinous, so egregious, that they deserve to have all their parenting cred withdrawn for the...
Monday Book Blogging 19 Feb 2008 | 02:10 pm
Food. Glorious food? Yes, we love food in our house. I'm happy that my children prefer bacon & onion pizza to the universal kid pizza: plain cheese. They love basil-rubbed pork ribs. Rosemary potatoe...
