By E. R. Catalano of Zoe vs. The Universe My daughter’s preschool class has started to learn phonics. If you went to school in the seventies or eighties like I did, you may remember learning to read with either phonics or the whole language approach. My school had phonics, aka […]
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Fashionably Irrational: Letting My Toddler Decide My Back-to-School Attire
By Lisa Carmody Doiron of Momologues. Sigh… As fall breezes in, it’s time to put away the flip flops and sundresses and replace them with…umm…ah… I don’t know…turtlenecks? Seriously, I don’t know anything about fashion. I’ve always been a little behind in the clothing department, and since having kids, it’s […]
If Disney Princesses Were Back-to-School Moms
By Eileen Turay of Liv&Leen It’s TIME!! People all around the country have been both anxiously awaiting and/or dreading the days until school is back in session; and the time has finally come. If you’ve ever been a part of the “Back to School” culture, you’ve probably noticed that there are […]
He’s Not Teething. He’s Just An A-Hole.
I’m probably an average parent who does average parent stuff. Like noticing small actions or personality traits displayed by my 13 week old sons and then projecting those to speculate exactly what they’ll be like as adults. I think most parents of newborns do this. And it’s probably because when […]
A Letter to Boys 1 and 2: A Few (11) Simple Requests from a Tired Mom
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] By Kathryn Berens of Turning Twice Twenty Dear Boys 1 and 2: Boys will be boys…trite but true. However, for the sake of household harmony and my own sanity, I have a couple of gripes which, as they say, are “better out than in.” I think […]
Now That I Am a Mom…
By Kelly Arnell of Why did we Have to Have All These Kids Anyway? I used to be able to recite the movie Pretty Woman almost by heart and knew all the words to all the songs in Dirty Dancing. Now that I’m a mom, I can quote lines from […]
Dracula Was In Our Freezer
We just got a new freezer. Upright because we’re no long able to stand on our heads to reach for things in the bottom of the good old 38 year-old chest style. And also because said chest style no longer froze things. A technicality, but an important one. I was reminded of my first […]
An Open Letter From the Baby Before Her First Birthday
By Emily Spence of Sweet n’ Sour Mom To Anyone Who Cares: I have a birthday coming up. It’s the BIG 0-1! I heard Mom stressin’ a bit, wondering if she was making it as special as she did for my older sister’s (I think she just let people know […]