| Category: Lifestyle |
Red, Green and Yellowing
Pretty (reused) paper, pretty (reused) ribbons of blue...
By Christina Deanne
When I was in sixth grade, my mom decided that we should recycle Christmas wrapping. Before you say what a great environmentalist she was, my mother recycled wrapping paper only because she didn't want to buy any. I had to hand wash aluminum foil until...read more |
| Category: Parenting |
Curse of the Diaper Genie
Going nuclear.
By Anne Nahm
As a mother of two small children, I could tell FTMs (first time mothers) a million little stories about how the second child is not like the first. The first child always has her hair combed, always has a clean face, always wears designer outfits...read more |
| Category: Lifestyle |
The IP Bookshelf
"Yum! Yuck!" and "Queen Bee Moms and Kingpin Dads"
Yum! Yuck! A Foldout Book of People Sounds
By Linda Sue Park and Julia Durango
Charlesbridge Publishing, $9.95
36 pages, ISBN 1570916594
Review by Amy Andrews
Like an ice cream cone on a hot summer's day, Linda Sue Park and Julia Durango's Yum! Yuck!...read more |
| Category: Parenting |
The New AP
Trying to strike a balance.
By Sherry Osborne
Before my first child Hayley was born, I expected that she would immediately sleep in her crib and in her own room. I had visions of getting up every three or four hours, nursing her in the rocking chair in the moonlight, burping her, and laying my sweet...read more |
| Category: Parenting |
The New AP
Trying to strike a balance.
By Sherry Osborne
Before my first child Hayley was born, I expected that she would immediately sleep in her crib and in her own room. I had visions of getting up every three or four hours, nursing her in the rocking chair in the moonlight, burping her, and laying my sweet...read more |
| Category: Lifestyle |
TP Proclamation
The transition period starts tomorrow.
By Karen Batka
Dear Family,
Do not be alarmed if you are sitting on the toilet and have found this post-it note in place of the usual roll of toilet paper. The reason for this change of procedure is the result of great strides in my therapy. It is imperative for me...read more |
| Category: Lifestyle |
Supermarket Epiphany
Revelation on aisle six.
By Amy Nathan
Everyone was right. My kids did deserve to grow up with a mother who was happy. And I was. I was happy with my wonderful kids and my circle of French-manicured girlfriends, latte clutches, wine times and PTO. Who wouldn't be? Our newly decorated four-bedroom...read more |
| Category: Humor |
The Cult of Motherhood
Come, join us...
By Kristen Chase
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but we moms have more in common with Katie Holmes than we'd like to think. That’s right. Because when we popped out that kid, we got an automatic membership to a special cult of our very own.
It’s...read more |
| Category: Humor |
The Cult of Motherhood
Come, join us...
By Kristen Chase
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but we moms have more in common with Katie Holmes than we'd like to think. That’s right. Because when we popped out that kid, we got an automatic membership to a special cult of our very own.
It’s...read more |
| Category: Lifestyle |
The IP Bookshelf
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
By Catherine Thimmesh
Houghton Mifflin Company, $19.95
80 pp.; ISBN: 0618507574
Review by Amy Brozio-Andrews
Thirty-seven years on, it's tempting to take space travel for granted-- NASA...read more |
| Category: Parenting |
Baby No Sleeping
The Giving-Up Guide for Parents Who Can't Get Their Kids to Sleep
By Nell McCarthy
Below is a list of some of the things well-intentioned people told me to do to help my son sleep, number thirteen being my favorite:
“You have to get your son to nap, because if he goes to bed overtired, he’ll be too tired to sleep.”...read more |
| Category: Parenting |
Detachment Parenting
AP? It's just not my thing.
By Kelly Reising
As a parent are you attached to your kids? Well, that seems to be kind of a silly question. Most, if not all, good parents are attached to their kids. It’s natural. You love them, you form a bond with them the minute you first look into their eyes...read more |
| Category: Lifestyle |
The IP Bookshelf
Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement by Doreen Rappaport, illustrated by Shane W. Evans
Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
By Doreen Rappaport, illustrated by Shane W. Evans
Candlewick Press; $19.99
63 pp.; ISBN 978-0763619275
Review by Amy Brozio-Andrews
Recounting civil rights experiences...read more |
| Category: Columnists |
Growing Pains
Waiting room stories: stranger than family.
By Elizabeth Thompson
I sat in the stuffy room, drank another cup of bad coffee and threw a fleeting look towards the two women sitting at the table across from me as they continued to leaf through about a thousand greeting cards.
Strange: “Um, where do you...read more |
