Tada. Our very first placed advertisement will appear, in print, in one of our favorite parenting publications this winter – Brain, Child Magazine. In fact, a version of the ad is already live on their site. We’re super excited. We must be real, right, if we’re advertising? ;) By the way, if you don’t yet [...]
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Growing Child: What might your mom tell you if you asked?
Some suggestions from Ms. Gestwicki and her “Gaggle of Grandmas” we’ve adopted, some are new, all bear repeating and re-posting ;) A gaggle of grandmas By Carol Gestwicki What do you get when you have a gaggle of grandmas? A lot of thoughtful advice, that’s what. I recently asked several of my friends what insights [...]
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the flexitarians
I came across this story on the blog of a good college friend. I read it, left it, and found it wouldn’t let me go; it spoke so elegantly to my own experience with parenting. With permission of the author, I’m reposting here. Enjoy! – andrea THE FLEXITARIANS by Caroline Cummins During my freshman year [...]
How do you handle your anger?
HANDLING ANGER This is a tough one for me, personally, sort of an ongoing question. Some interesting suggestions came just now in my almost-four-year-olds’ Growing Child newsletter. How do you handle your anger? Everyone is born with the capacity to feel anger. Our culture may try to tell us that nice people don’t display their [...]
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[video] Covering up is a feminist issue
I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a FEMINIST lately, especially in regards to parenting. It seems others have been thinking about this too. EXHIBIT 1 Annie Urban of PhDinParenting produced a provocative video showing the spectrum from faith-based clothing dictates in Muslim countries to cultural versions in Western countries (“good girl” vs. [...]
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Growing Child: Praise Junkies
Growing Child has a knack for knowing what my children are up to. This week I noticed that my newly-2 has begun to look at me whenever she’s doing really anything at all – leaning outward on the jungle gym, for example, or filling a cup at the sink – and saying “I do this!” [...]
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Growing Child: On Sibling Rivalry
One of the things I struggle with most as a parent is when to be separate from my children’s emotions – when to know better, to counsel, to put things in perspective – and when to wholly empathize, understand where they’re coming from, and trust and honor the intensity of their emotion – and how, [...]
Toys and gifts that require work
There’s a store in San Jose “Treehouse in the Glen” that does not stock toys with batteries, and one in Palo Alto “Play Store” that aims for toys that inspire children to ask “What do I want to do with this?” instead of “What am I supposed to do with this?” (according to an article [...]
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Growing Child: Babies – No Laughing Matter
One of the awesome highlights of 2010 for me was the documentary film Babies. I find I continue to think about it months later, and there’s even a thread about the film on our Q&A site here. I was happy to see one of our favorite parenting experts – Grandma of “Grandma Says” at Growing Child [...]
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Traditions
Holidays with young children are a great time to think about traditions. We’re thinking this year about the mix of Hanukkah and Christmas that we want to have in our nuclear family. And, after our first night of Hanukkah, we’re thinking about which parts were wonderful exactly as they happened, and which parts we might [...]
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