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School’s In!

by Tena

on August 26, 2010 in Parenting

With the summer winding down, pools are closing, temperatures are becoming more bearable, and vacationers are returning home.  Soon the leaves will start turning and there will be a smell of fall in the air.  This can mean only one thing. Back to school, bitches! I have a love/hate relationship with back to school time.   [...]

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Oh, I’m Sorry. I Didn’t Get the Memo Where I Was Your Kid’s Parent.

by Angie Pangie

on June 1, 2010 in Parenting

I love my children. I tolerate yours. Sometimes. When I take my girls to the neighborhood pool, I go to make sure they’re not drowning, they’re having fun, and they’re not bothering other people. It’s kind of that oath of parental responsibility we imaginarily signed when we pushed out the babies from our nethers.

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The Snip and Why I’ll Never Have Another Baby

by Angie Pangie

on May 4, 2010 in Parenting

My friend Mandi asked me recently, as many, MANY people do, “Why stop with just two children?” My answer, “ARE YOU EFFING KIDDING? ARE YOU INSANE? I CAN BARELY HANDLE THE TWO I HAVE NOW AND YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY I WOULDN’T WANT MORE?”

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Preschool, a Whole New Place to Screw Up

by Maria Melee

on April 6, 2010 in Parenting

Remember the Breakfast Club? Those archetypes of cinematic goodness? Totally spot on. Also, they persist throughout life to a certain extent. Particularly in the realms of preschool-classroom-parents. You have the room mom who always remembers to get things done, organizes the school fairs and classroom cleanups and plans adorable flower-giving for the teacher’s birthdays. You [...]

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Resolutions of a Lazy Mother

by 3 Day Weekend

on February 19, 2010 in Community

This year, this mother of two aims to do less. My kids don’t really appreciate what I do anyway, so why not save myself the trouble? Less time on THEM means more time on ME. (Hey, maybe I’ll finally find time to use that Wii Fit all the cool kids are talking about nowadays.) So, [...]

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What. The. What.

by Ali Martell

on January 18, 2010 in Parenting

I love artwork. I come from two sets of parents who essentially wallpaper their homes with art. They are lovers of every genre. They’ve got rooms filled with abstract paintings, rooms with both expressionist and impressionist art. Picasso, Chagall, Matisse, Renoir, Seurat, Warhol,  Vermeer, Cassatt, Van Gogh, Monet, Gauguin, Dali, Cezanne, Rockwell, Adams, Agam. I [...]

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The Battle Against the Bane of my Existence

by Mishelle Lane

on November 16, 2009 in Parenting

A couple years ago, over the Christmas holiday, the silent invasion began.   One turned into two, two turned into four, four turned six, then nine, twelve, and so on, and so forth.   Sure the invasion was innocent enough, at first, but soon we were taken over by the sheer magnitude of their forces.     What invasion [...]

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Why You Should Always Monitor the Books Your Kid Checks Out at the Library!

by Mishelle Lane

on November 4, 2009 in Parenting

I can’t quite remember where we were going, but I remember that Davey was napping and the kids were having some reading time. I think we were going to co-op. Yeah, that’s it; we were going to co-op, but I digress. The kids were all on the couches, reading, and I was upstairs getting ready. [...]

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Two Children

by Maria Melee

on October 28, 2009 in Parenting

When I was pregnant with my second child, I wondered how having two children would shake up the relationship I had with my son. Other parents expressed their concerns, the worry they’d felt while pregnant. But I rarely felt particularly worried for long. (This is unusual for me.)

This month, their personalities have really divulged. They’re starting to acknowledge each other. They interact without me in the equation. And when either of them needs me, they need me in wildly different ways. A come do a puzzle with me or a bumped chin and an empty belly. A short conversation about planets or ten minutes at the breast.

So this weekend I took each boy on a Mama-date. (Actually, Chipmunk got two of them.)

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Are You Serious?

by ASouthernFairytale

on October 21, 2009 in Parenting

“Are you serious?” is sooo much nicer to say to your 3 year old than, “Are you freaking kidding me?” “Are you trying to drive me absolutely batballs crazy?’ Those phrases are on the tip of my tongue on a daily basis because my 3 year old climbs walls (literally)… he unscrews hinges of doors [...]

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