Month: August 2015
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Bitty Buddha 101: What to Do When You Meet Someone with a Bad Name (from the Momplex Blog archive)
I think being part of the human tribe is hard, but for my seven-year-old Buddha, it seems kind of cake-walky. It’s not that nothing bad ever happens to him. I mean, a few weeks ago he breathlessly announced that he was pretty sure he’d met a bully at school. Yet his thrilled expression matched that of someone who’d spotted a Yeti. Some boy had…
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Bitty Buddha 101: How (and Why) to Make a Mean Person Your Friend (from the Momplex Blog archive)
I can’t count how many times someone’s called my first-grader a little Buddha. He’s an insightful little fart, often boiling down life’s tough stuff into the simplest terms from the backseat of my Hyundai. And he’s always unusually happy, even when his nose is bleeding like a scene from the Colosseum. One could argue that all first-graders have…
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