Top 3 Signs You’re A Bad Mother
Top three signs you’re a Bad Mother – kindergarten is about to begin and…
Meena’s Mom
Once upon a time, in the years BC (before children), the idea self-identifying as “someone’s Mom” was not just foreign, but distasteful. To identify oneself as nothing but the appendage of another, to be nothing but “Meena’s mom”, represented an abdication of self. I couldn’t understand why other women would do such a thing.
10 Things I Didn’t Know About Parenting But Have Been Forced To Find Out
Top ten lists – everybody loves them. Everybody writes them. Someone else has probably already written this one. But here, nonetheless, is my modest contribution to the genre:
Monday(ish) Moment: Bliss
Every Friday Brie, from Capital Mom, posts a theme / topic and if you like you can join her by writing about a moment related to that theme/ topic the following Monday. This week’s Monday Moment is Bliss. ~ This post has too many words, too much complexity, for a moment so simple. Me, rushing [...]
BUG!
Every Friday Brie, from Capital Mom, posts a theme / topic and if you like you can join her by writing about a moment related to that theme/ topic the following Monday. This week’s Monday Moment is Unexpected. ~ “BUG! BUG!” you shriek, as you rip the bright yellow crocs back off your feet. And [...]
Boy Toys
Dear Melissa and Doug, I love your toys. I love that my toddler can serve sashimi with a side of bok choy from her inherited (and carefully anonymized) drive-thru play set. McSushi, anyone? But one of your recent offerings has me a little perplexed. A toy just for boys? That surprised me. There’s lots out [...]
Two Mondays. Two Moments.
Every Friday Brie, from Capital Mom, posts a theme / topic and if you like you can join her by writing about a moment related to that theme/ topic the following Monday. My moments almost always seem to come a day or two too late, so this post is a double header: Last Week’s Monday [...]
Cruisin’
Every Friday Brie, from Capital Mom, posts a theme/topic and if you like you can join her by writing about a moment related to that theme/topic the following Monday. The theme for this week’s Monday Moment is Friendship. ~ Two friends, out cruisin’ in their brand-new ride. ”Tell baby about what you see, that’s how she [...]
Talking TeleHealth
When I showed up at the hospital at 4:30 this morning, the staff were friendly. And when someone asked the nurse how he was enjoying his first night on triage, I joked that this was not what a nervous mom wants to hear. I do have one complaint about the exchange, though: some derogatory comments [...]
Escape, For A Moment
Brie from Capital Mom has invited her readers to share some of their parenting moments as Monday Moments. This week’s topic is “reading”. It’s the flu. Your first really big one. And you’re miserable. Who could blame you? I’d be miserable too. I know that these things will eventually run their course, and even I [...]
Other places I ramble
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