Thanks to Meegs of A New Day for today’s guest post! Parenting is an ever evolving process. No one would claim that parenting your newborn is the same as parenting your infant is the same as parenting your toddler and beyond. Every parenting style changes, but I think that if you consider yourself an AP …
Monthly Archive: May 2012
May 21
Homework: The Battle over Busy Work
Today’s guest post is by Amy Travis, who last wrote for my blog with A Recipe for Disaster One evening a few weeks ago, I was witness to a father and son fighting over homework. It was a heated fight, happening on the bleachers while others were practicing basketball. At one point the father even …
May 18
Extended Breastfeeding – Let’s Get Real
By now you’ve all seen it: The Time cover with the young and beautiful mom breastfeeding a 3 or 4 year old boy, who for some reason is standing up on a chair as he nurses and stares down the camera. If you’re like me, you’ve in fact seen it over and over (and over …
May 16
What I Learned on my Summer Vacation
Or rather, on my spring camp-out. In no particular order: And finally, three days is a long enough break from real beds, real toilets, and hot showers… but not nearly long enough from housework, voice mails, and Facebook. I can’t wait for the next trip. (More pics are here)
May 15
Unschooling: My moment of doubt
The room was nearly silent. The awkwardness was palpable. Even the speech therapist … bubbly, outgoing and friendly until just a few weeks prior, absolutely refused to look us in the eye, instead staring down at some imaginary spot on the table. I remember looking at the clock – a standard issue, one-in-every-room school clock …
May 09
Daydreams
Today’s guest post is from my friend, Alice, who last shared her story of her twin baby girls in Surprises. Thanks, Alice, for another beautiful and honest post. When I daydreamed as a girl about having a family of my own, I can’t say I envisioned the choices I would eventually make. There was no …
May 04
Common Sense Parenting
I think sometimes as parents, we make things way more complicated than they need to be. I read a blog post the other day that referred to the “moral gymnastics” involved in everything from the food we buy, to the way we diaper, to the decisions we make about school. It’s a term that resonated …
May 02
Eight Awesome Things
Eight years ago today, after a scary labor and delivery, we were blessed with our third beautiful boy. In honor of his eight years, here are eight things (in no particular order) that I just adore about Everett: 1. His laugh. You know how some kids just naturally have a deep, soulful, belly laugh that …
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