If you liked, “Go the f**k to Sleep,” but somehow wish that it was more morbid, then you should check out a new book, “Inside, Screaming, Sinking Down,” a parody of the Berenstain Bears, “Inside, Screaming, Sinking Down” pokes fun at the anxiety-riddled parent by showing a morbid version of the Berenstain Bears morality tales. [...]
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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 [...]
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Today, Annika spontaneously told Toyin and me that she loved us. It came completely out of the blue, but a tiny part of me wonders if maybe these first couple of weeks into the month of love had something to do with it. Toyin dropped by after work today to visit Annika. We were playing [...]
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Brown with a white background makes a nice combination Annika has been making note of her brown skin color lately. And today, in our learning co-op, we had our first Black History lesson. We talked about skin color. I gave them a coloring page of a map of Africa, showing them Nigeria on the map, [...]
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Me, and the love of my life. Annika’s been sick for a couple of days, and wanted mama by her side at night so at night, I have been lying in bed and thinking, instead of writing. For the month of Februrary in the Happiness Project the topic is “Remember Love.” In the book, Gretchen [...]
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I’ve been meaning to update y’all on my Happiness Project for a couple of weeks now, but I’ve had so many other awesome things to write about, it kept getting put aside. It’s all good though, because now I can reflect on how I did and hopefully inspire some of you who are doing it, [...]
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The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin You may or may not have noticed that in one of my last posts I wrote “I feel such gratitude for The Time of No More Naps.” The reason behind my writing that final sentence is part of a new project that I’m undertaking this year. One of the [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Well folks, we’re halfway through the book, A Secure Base, written by John Bowlby, who was one of the first researchers on attachment. This next chapter is on family violence, a prevalent and far-reaching problem that stems from the most basic of needs. So far I feel like I’ve learned a lot, and much of [...]
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