Tag: parenting
group name: womenwise
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April 06, 2008 05:25 PM EDT --
When I was eight years old, I was still wetting the bed. It was an embarrassing problem and my parents got tired of getting up in the middle of the night to change my bedding and my pajamas. They put . . .
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October 19, 2007 02:03 PM EDT --
Maybe I am an alarmist or paranoid mother. I don't know. But, how did I not know about this highly contagious, and could be fatal staph infection until now? What i know about MRSA . . .
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September 28, 2007 10:36 AM EDT --
An article in MSN (via Redbook) states that an infant's cries and feedback actually cause a mother's brain to change in order to become a better parent for his specific needs. So, it's my brain, . . .
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May 17, 2007 11:29 AM EDT --
Moms and dads often multitask. They drive their kids to and from activities, while balancing feeding the family with monitoring homework But mothers also, according to a recent Wall Street . . .
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June 12, 2006 05:15 PM EDT --
If you heard an enormous sigh of relief emanating from the NY metro area around 1:00 this afternoon it was me. I just heard that I am not, after all, responsible for permanently disfiguring my four . . .
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April 27, 2007 03:38 PM EDT --
Bigot (noun) a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.
(Source: Random House Unabridged Dictionary)
This is the word that sprang to my mind recently after . . .
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July 30, 2007 07:08 PM EDT --
My two younger kids are 14 months apart, Irish twins.
When they were little and I tucked them into bed, they would come up with all the usual stay up longer tactics. "I'm thirsty" . . .
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March 23, 2007 12:10 PM EDT --
"Mom, what crowd were you in when you were in 7th grade? the popular kids or the invisibles?"
"What do you mean by invisibles?"
"You know the kids no one notices like me." . . .
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June 11, 2006 12:05 AM EDT --
This week I was in a store and caught off guard by a mother and her about 8 year old daughter in the midst of a public display of fit throwing and abuse.
The child cried and rubbed her . . .
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November 09, 2007 04:14 PM EST --
Do you want to help you children channel their emotions and become more focused? For yoga instructor Mary Kaye Chryssicas , learning yoga as a child helped her gain more confidence and decrease her . . .
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April 27, 2006 05:05 PM EDT --
Martha Jette wrote an article about being a grandmother and it got me to thinking about my daughter Beth who is 17. Can I imagine her having a child right now? When I was her age she was already 5 months . . .
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March 06, 2007 11:36 AM EST --
(I wrote this song driving home from the morning school run. If you can imagine, without the music, a coffee house song on Sirius 30? it sounds like one of those. I played it for the boy . . .
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February 12, 2008 07:16 PM EST --
Now some people might think this isn't a big deal, but you see, it is.
Friday my daughter, who is 25, and I are flying to Ft. Lauderdale for 5 days. This is the blow out vacation. My . . .
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May 06, 2008 09:31 AM EDT --
I have three children of my own and some of my happiest memories have been spending time with them in the kitchen. When my children were little I was just starting my career, which meant spending . . .
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May 27, 2008 09:45 AM EDT --
Egg allergies are less common than most people think. Like any potentially allergenic food, an egg can cause a reaction, but if it does, the effect is immediate and striking, leaving no question and . . .
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September 12, 2007 06:05 PM EDT --
I am an addict.
My poison is not drugs, or alcohol, or even cigarettes, but steam cleaning.
It started innocently. You know, I was an occasional "social" user. When family was coming to town, . . .
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April 30, 2007 06:13 PM EDT --
I just started a group for anyone who had or is having a baby in 2007. It can be your first or one of many. I just wanted a place for us to support each other, as well as enjoy the fun of pregnancies and . . .
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September 04, 2007 10:35 AM EDT --
Today my husband and I are planning to drive home (Raleigh, NC to Boston, MA) in one, 14-hourish drive.
Here's the question - With two kids (2 and 5) and drive through major cities - what time . . .
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May 14, 2006 11:20 AM EDT --
The Bathrobe
I knew it was inevitable.
Genetics are the strongest force in the world
And there is a point when acceptance is the only answer.
I had seen her face in my grandmother
But still . . .
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June 25, 2007 04:06 PM EDT --
Every Thursday, back at my regular site, I post a bit of light humor and fun. It's usually about parenting, but sometimes my thoughts wander to other topics. The rest of the site is dedicated to food . . .
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Women Wise
Location: Weymouth, MA
Created: Mar 02, 2006
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