Annika’s Halloween costume, Uniqua, from the Backyardigans Last year around Halloween I became aware of the idea of unfooding, or basically, not limiting food, and not setting any real standards surrounding meals. The idea is that if you provide your children with lots and lots of choices, they will learn to self regulate and will [...]
Categories: Motherhood, Parenting
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Bloggy Bootcamp Aside from spending a lot of time at the hospital last week, over the weekend I spent my Saturday at Bloggy Bootcamp hosted by SITS Girls. By lunchtime I felt like I had gotten my money’s worth ($125). And by the end of the day, my head was whirling with information, new relationships, [...]
Categories: Blogging, Uncategorized, writing
Last week it became clear to me that I am now a part of the sandwich generation. The sandwich generation is the time of life when you are taking care of children and elderly parents. Some of you may have wondered where the heck I’ve been. I’ve been at the hospital. Not literally all week, [...]
Categories: Life, Motherhood, Parenting
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Categories: Bi-racial, Blogs on Racial/Biracial Issues, Parenting, Racial Identity
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Annika is going to be 2.5 soon, and it shows. I’ve heard from various parents that during the toddler years, the half years are when the kiddos show dramatic personality development. And by dramatic personality development, I mean, they start doing new shit when you are least expecting it. Now, I try to be fair [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Motherhood, Parenting
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Thus far, chapter five of A Secure Base, by John Bowlby, has proven to be the most interesting to me. In the last part of the chapter we learned that childhood anxiety, rejection, abandonment, and simply fear of abandonment, can affect dramatically a person’s likelihood to abuse their own children. It makes more sense to [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Attachment Theory, Books
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Every single choice we make affects our lives for the long-term. This is a lesson that has been hard for me to grasp. I’m a procrastinator. I’ve spent much of my life thinking of the someday. Well, someday never happens unless you make a choice. Someday isn’t going to just happen. We can make our [...]
Categories: Buddhism, Failure, Fear, Intentions, Life, writing
So here we are. Halfway through the book, A Secure Base. And this chapter is promising to be pretty fascinating. Last week we read about how family violence was not considered to be a major factor in adults’ psychological disturbances in the scientific world, until fairly recently. This is a part of my ongoing series [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Attachment Theory, Books, Motherhood
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