Category: motherhood
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You’re Doing It All Wrong: Parenting in the Information Age (from the Momplex Blog archive)
To circumcise or not, to vaccinate or not, to breastfeed or not, to co-sleep or not: Parenting young kids has become a series of capital-W watershed choices that are presented as ways to make or break your child—physically, emotionally, developmentally. The stakes are always portrayed as the highest of high, with nearly every single debated…
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All Better (from the Momplex Blog archive)
My son wept today. Even though he’s six, such displays are rare with him. The tears were over a Lego creation he worked on for maybe an hour, tops, something he very generously called a Transformer. To me, it looked like it could be a Lego anything: a building, a sandwich, a tribute to Tetris. “This right…
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The Longest Marathon: How I Survived a Sleepless, Screaming, Crying, Colicky Baby (from the Momplex Blog archive)
My daughter rocked a killer tan when she was a newborn. It was actually jaundice, but it made her look all devil-may-care bronzed. Strangers would peer under the hood of her car seat and remark on her golden complexion. “Hello, precious!” they’d say. “She’s such a beautiful color!” “Thanks,” I’d say, wanting to add, “It’s…
The Second Magpie 