I spend most of my days doing housework. For the last 2 years, I’ve wrestled with what that means about my identity and value in the world. After my recent reality tv bender, I found that doing the dishes isn’t the worst thing on earth after all.
My latest challenge? Beginning and finishing a task. Between my toddler and the internet, I seem to be more distract-able than ever. How do you keep your focus with kids and the interweb and a million and one things seeking your attention?
My dear friend Ellie gave birth to her daughter a year ago yesterday. So to celebrate S’s first year and Ellie and Ben’s survival of it, I made them this:
I thought I was ahead of the curve when I opted to read less how-to parenting advice and use my maternal instincts more. But for things like newborn sleep, toddler tantrums, my instincts have failed me royally. Turns out that in situations like these, nothing replaces the sage advice of a skilled expert. Resources I… Read More On intuition vs. experience
We’ve all seen the “perfect parent performance” before. Here’s why it drives me bonkers and how I’m trying to break the mold. More food for thought: “Modern Parenting: If we try to engineer perfect children…” by Katie Roiphe “Mother Madness” by Erica Jong http://www.simplicityparenting.com/about/thebook.html
We’ve all seen the “perfect parent performance” before. Here’s why it drives me bonkers and how I’m trying to break the mold. More food for thought: “Modern Parenting: If we try to engineer perfect children…” by Katie Roiphe “Mother Madness” by Erica Jong http://www.simplicityparenting.com/about/thebook.html
Why are so many of us predisposed to think that we’d be setting our children up for failure if we only have one? Here’s what happened for me when I started thinking that my first child might be my last. The article that inspired this vlog: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2002382,00.html More food for thought: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-08/osu-guw081110.php
