Mama Drama: Potty Training On The Go
September 3, 2010 – 7:00 am | No Comment

Dear Mama Drama:
My two year old is potty training and has moved into wearing “big girl panties.” I am freaked out about taking her out of the house because I’m afraid she’ll have an accident and will become too discouraged. How can I take her out and help her to be successful?
~ Stuck in the [...]

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Dumb Dinner Game Life Lessons
May 20, 2008 – 12:27 am | 7 Comments

So I have started this new THING at dinner called “What would you do?” Because I’m always trying to find a way to inject a life lesson when my children are NOT in trouble, NOT tuning me out, and NOT crying so hard that my platitudes about how you should “never ever NEVER grab a [...]

Bilingual Children: A Mother’s Day Wish
May 7, 2008 – 1:00 am | 10 Comments

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Sitting between my grandmother’s legs, her fingers intertwined in my clean, moist hair, my eyes pulled back into painful slits as she braids the ponytail sitting high on top of my head, I quickly learned [...]

Next, she’ll be asking why she can’t pierce her navel
April 30, 2008 – 12:48 am | 10 Comments

In preparation for having children, I devoured books about how to take care of diaper rash. How to check for signs of dehydration. How to administer CPR on an infant. Once the children arrived and I felt like I’d mastered infancy, I sought out the books that discussed things like “how to raise confident [...]

35 things I have learned by having my tap water taken away
April 1, 2008 – 12:16 am | 13 Comments

I live in that small town in southern Colorado recently afflicted with salmonella in the water, and I would probably be remiss if I didn’t blog about what this experience has taught me.
1) It takes approximately four 16.9 fluid ounce bottles of water to boil a package of spaghetti.
2) [...]

If holiday ennui makes for a bad parent, then I’m downright terrible
March 25, 2008 – 12:58 am | 9 Comments

I am not religious. And I’m not really interested in celebrating the Hallmark holidays, either. Add to this an aversion to candy and an inherent laziness when it comes to decorating/cooking/shopping/costume-making, and you end up with a person who doesn’t appear to do very much in the way of “celebrating.”
This would be a non-issue, [...]

Talking about the birds, the bees and Mexican food with my kid
March 14, 2008 – 12:35 am | 8 Comments

I recently read an article in the New York Times about a documentary that was made with four- and six-year-old little girls who were given the opportunity to ask a panel of scientists, therapists, and various experts questions they had about SEX, everything from how babies are made to what is AIDS and homosexuality… because [...]

I believe one person (or two) can make a difference
March 4, 2008 – 12:36 am | 9 Comments

Some people look out their office windows and see high rises, maybe a school yard, a Zen garden or something as grand as Lake Superior. Some people don’t have an office window and are now cursing me for pouring salt in THAT wound. But I’ve recently realized that sometimes a windowless office might be the [...]