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Tips for Talking with Kids About Cancer
If we lived in a perfect world, I wouldn't have to share this post -- and no parent would ever have to talk to their child about cancer. Whether you or your partner or a grandparent or another loved...
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Mafia or 'Lord of the Flies' -- Never Turn Your Back on Your Kids
If you have more than one teenage boy, you have (probably) on at least one occasion dealt as I have with the rooster posturing, and growling boys tend to emanate when they become angry with each...
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BlogHer Daily: What We Love (And Laugh At), Every Morning!
We're excited to announce the launch of BlogHer Daily, a short, fast, and funny look at what's got women in social media talking each morning:Our favorite, most gorgeous fashion, food, and DIY posts,...
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The Microwave Generation: What Are We Doing to Our Children?
"I want to give my children everything that I didn't have when I was a kid?" Have you ever heard someone say this? Have you ever said it yourself? Every time I hear that statement I wonder two things,...
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Giving Birth to a Unicorn: When Your Child Comes Out as Transgender
I thought I was liberal. I thought I'd evolved from the person I was in my youth: conservative, religious, and specific to this post, a hater of gays and lesbians.It's been a long and frequently...
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Sending Your Kids to Camp Can Help You Grow Up -- As a Parent
Our family just returned from a week-long camp at Mount Hermon Christian Conference Center in Northern California. This is our 11th year of what has become our family tradition.When we arrived at Mt....
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Long Summer Days Got You Down? Get a Child Whisperer!
Summer is well underway. Before you know it we will be buying supplies, backpacks and super crunchy back-to-school jeans. The kids are over the thrill of being out for the summer. They aren't yet...
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15 Things I Want to Teach My Children
Attachment, permissive, helicopter, authoritarian; the list goes on and on. In today's world of "labels," the role of parent has been dissected, studied, analyzed and categorized, sparking debates, the...
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I Put My Baby On a Train!
Ok, I didn’t actually put my baby on a train. It was my 13-year-old and I didn’t leave him anywhere; I put him on a commuter train heading for the safety of camp in the northern suburbs of...
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How an App and Peer Pressure Won Me the Mother of the Year Award
When The Kid was little, I was petrified that something would happen to my little girl, and she wouldn't know what to do.I wanted to equip her for anything... bad touches, peer pressure, bullying,...
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Excuse Me, Please: My Daughter Is on the Phone
When I was a girl, I'd watch my mom thumb through photo albums and rummage through boxes of brightly colored snapshots. My siblings and I always liked to look through them with her, amazed at how our...
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The Day I Almost Put My Child in a Dumpster
So who else went dumpster diving last weekend?Saturday was one of those high-intensity parenting days where the kids fought all day -- loudly and with much enthusiasm -- at home and in public. Mommy...
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I Don't Have a Rainbow Thing
I have a secret. It's the reason I blur my pictures and give my kids cute names like Punkgirl (12), Happyboy (10), and Rose (7 months), and it's the reason my husband is Coffeeguy and I am the Stuck At...
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Helping My Daughter Get Ready & Organized for Middle School
What they say is definitely true -- time flies when you have kids. I remember that the first five years of Abbi’s life seemed like such a long time, up until she was ready to head off to kindergarten....
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Inspired by Ashton Kutcher: I Didn't Think I'd Be Saying That, Either, But I Am
I never thought I would quote Ashton Kutcher (ever!), but here goes…“Build a Life, Don’t Live One. Find Your Opportunities. And Always Be Sexy,” said the Iowa-born model, actor, producer and avid...
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Creating Routines to Help My Son Succeed
Jameson started back to school this week. While many parents can't wait for their kids to get out of their hair and head off to head off to school, I dread it. A lot. I love the lazy, unstructured...
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5 Ways to Help Your Teen Find What Makes His Brain Light Up
When your teenager with ADHD or ADD heads off to high school, both of you may feel anxious. School can be difficult for anyone, and most people have no desire to be back in high school. But for your...
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A Great Off-to-College Gift: Laundry Essentials Bucket & Tips
My daughter is off to college next fall and I am collecting and making gifts for her and her two BFFs to take to college. (Read more about that here.) I will put them all in the large Thirty-One totes...
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How Creating a 504 Plan in the Earlier Years Can Benefit Teens with ADHD
Our primary back to school focus this year has been getting Reagan ready for college. Going to college involves back-to-school shopping on steroids. Sheesh. This doesn’t mean the other two went...
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10 Bloggers Respond to Mrs. Hall's Letter with Thoughts on Slut-Shaming,...
As a mom of two boys, I have high hopes of teaching them many important lessons. Things like compassion and acceptance, the importance of education and hard work, the benefit of a leap of faith versus...
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