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Lovely/Sweet

21 December 2011

One day last week, we took the kids out to eat, and all the stars aligned. Do you know what I mean? All the kids were occupied and interested and talking and listening to each other. The big kids helped the little kids with their drinks and silverware and crayons. They were telling us about [...]

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Macadamias

19 September 2011

My children’s behavior in the car on the way home from school today almost put me in a coma. I can’t even describe it. Yelling, kicking, and then yelling about the kicking, loud pronoucements of rule breaking without quote-unquote “tattling,” mother used as trash disposal, screaming about needed objects that can’t possibly be reached in [...]

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Free Range

1 June 2011

I talk about my kids a lot, but I don’t feel like I say very much about my “parenting,” mostly because that whole idea just doesn’t even make sense to me. Parenting is not some monolithic activity that you can fit into a box or a “style.” I thought I knew (sortof) what “kind” of [...]

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