Sometimes I think that parenting needs a 12-step program. I’m a believer in the theory of unconditional parenting as proposed by Alfie Kohn in his book Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason. However, belief by itself doesn’t always translate into action. I’m in the midst of re-reading the book because [...]
Categories: Books, Motherhood, Uncategorized
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Tags: Books
The past week has been one of those weeks where I blink and it’s next Tuesday. The nights and days blur together and every night, I marvel that it seems like I was just getting Annika ready for bed a minute ago. Here we go again. I’m obsessing over preschools and elementary schools. I’m making [...]
Categories: Life, Uncategorized
*Family member TMI alert* Mom, TMI = You may not want to read this. For the past few years, sex has come and gone in my brain in a variety of ways that it never had before becoming a mom. Before giving birth, I had heard of women losing their desire to have sex. I [...]
Categories: Single motherhood, Uncategorized
| Tags: Annika, Breastfeeding, Extended Breastfeeding, Single Mom
I have two Facebook friends who are dead. Every time I think about it, I stop and pause. It’s just so strange to me that there are dead people who still have an online presence. And then I go about my day. But I have to wonder, I mean, what will happen to those profiles? [...]
Categories: Life, Uncategorized, writing
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Since I generally make resolutions and then I don’t keep them, I decided that this year I’d use a little reverse psychology on my self. Here’s my New Year’s resolutions list for 2012: Watch more TV Eat more junk food Drink more Gain weight Exercise less Spend less time playing with Annika Read less Don’t [...]
Categories: Failure, Uncategorized
| Tags: Holidays
