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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Care and treatment of kids’ pearly whites
May 4, 2010 – 6:00 am | One Comment
Care and treatment of kids’ pearly whites

Two years ago my daughter-with-the-dazzling-smile fell and cracked one of her newly-minted top front teeth. On a Friday night. I picked up the tooth stub from the floor and frantically tried to figure out how to save her from a life of gap-toothedness.
In what turned out to be a Very Important Referral, I called our [...]

Oh, no — not the Smasher!
April 20, 2010 – 7:00 am | 2 Comments
Oh, no — not the Smasher!

Our new Wii brought a such happiness to my son, Reed. He spent all of Christmas morning plotting just exactly how this new addition would change his life. He angled to get the Wii set up in the basement, where he and Tessa have their DVDs and old-style game system set up [...]

The returned Russian boy and casting stones
April 17, 2010 – 12:01 am | 17 Comments
The returned Russian boy and casting stones

Said by me in utter hubris, pre-2001.

No child of mine will ever go up the down escalator or inconvenience others by playing with the elevator buttons.
No child of mine will ever make too much noise on an airplane.
No child of mine will ever run wild in a sit-down restaurant.
No child of mine will ever [...]

Girl World Tour for moms and tweens/teens
April 6, 2010 – 12:01 am | 3 Comments
Girl World Tour for moms and tweens/teens

This post comes with a giveaway. Read to the bottom for info and to enter.
No parent wants to raise a mean girl.
The author of Queen Bees and Wannabes, the book on which the film Mean Girls was based, wants to help Denver-area moms and their daughters navigate more easily through the tween and teen years.
Rosalind [...]

Body Worlds: “Let’s see what you’re made of.”
March 23, 2010 – 12:01 pm | 3 Comments
Body Worlds: “Let’s see what you’re made of.”

The exhibit starts in a bright red antechamber. I notice a faint throbbing noise, an incessant heartbeat. I see about 2 dozen large red barrels bathed in red light. They represent the amount of blood my heart is going to pump today — 1800 gallons at a pace of about 3 ounces per beat. It [...]

Here I come to save the day
March 9, 2010 – 12:01 am | 7 Comments
Here I come to save the day

As part of our post-adoption homestudy nine years ago, our agency required us to attend classes in Infant & Child CPR and to submit our certificate of completion for our file. At the time, doing so seemed like just another step in a looooooong series of hurdles to become parents.
And like [...]

Observations of a control freak
February 25, 2010 – 7:00 am | 6 Comments
Observations of a control freak

Anyone who blogs or writes is probably a control freak. We write to bring order to chaos. To understand the mystifying. To get people to do something, even just to agree or disagree.
As any of the three people who live with me will attest, I fit nicely into the CF category.
One evening [...]