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• Babble Talk: When It's Too Cold to Play

  I wanted to be all huffy about Kim Brooks' essay about raising her son in cold climes this week. After all, Bad Parent: Cold Comfort points a finger at Northeasterners like me as "bad parents." But my righteous indignation falls woefully short. I hate the cold.   And before you get that Mommy tone of voice on and tell me "hate is a strong word, young lady," let me tell you - I REALLY hate the cold. What's more, I refuse to do fun things outside in the cold with my over-eager pre-schooler. Read More... Posted Jan 30 2009, 12:23 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: playtime, bad parents, New York, babble talk, asthma, Bad Parent, winter, cold, Jeanne Sager, new yorker, outside, northeast, winter woes

• Police Coach Birth Via Cell Phone

  Freezing my tuchus off in New York this week, the story of the mom who delivered in her freezing cold Connecticut car warmed those cockles.  Husband and wife had apparently made it outside of the house and into the car on the way to the hospital when their baby's head started pushing its way out. Dad did the only thing he could think to do - he called the cops. Read More... Posted Dec 23 2008, 03:28 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: pregnancy, pregnant, labor, delivery, cold, Jeanne Sager, cold spell, birth coach, delivering in car

• Weekly Check-Up: Your Stress Makes Your Kid Sick

  Feeling anxious and depressed? Well, now you have one more thing to angst about, because a new study suggests parental emotional stress can make kids more vulnerable to illness. Like it is enough that stress makes you more likely to get sick, now your children have to be felled by the latest bug as well. I totally knew that stomach flu my kid got was my fault, I just hadn't figured out how I caused it yet. Researchers based the finding on both... Read More... Posted Mar 20 2008, 02:32 PM by Kelly Mills with | with no comments Filed under: parenting, health, research study, fathers, mothers, depression, stress, illness, weekly check up, immune system, flu, report, sick, cold