I have a hard time with endings and partings, so I find it’s best to just barrel through them hurriedly, without blinking. This is precisely what I’ve done over the past couple of weeks, as I shuttered my personal blog Sweetney after eight years, and began the task of methodically shedding all the social media MORE »
Back when my now tween-age daughter was a bit younger, she loved dolls. Always a staple of holiday gift-giving, our household now holds a gargantuan surplus of every imaginable variety of them, shoved away in abandoned toy boxes and closets. (Which reminds me, I really need to make a trip to Goodwill soon… think they MORE »
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I had a revelation last week, one I’m guessing a lot of parents can relate to. That being, that between after school activities, homework, studying, and other responsibilties, there was hardly any time left for my tween daughter and I to spend together anymore. Oh sure, I was spending plenty of time in her presence, as MORE »
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Like many people across the country, you most likely woke up this morning with a Tryptophan hangover and a house full of relatives. And despite the lingering appetite-suppressing effects of yesterday’s epic Thanksgiving meal, pretty soon those house guests are going to need to be fed. So here’s an easy and delicious breakfast option for MORE »
After reading about Furby and Bop It! SMASH, you might be wondering what other toys are hot this year for tweens. Well, my 10-year-0ld daughter and I have poured over the options, and I’m here to report that there’s a whoooole lot of toys out there that a tween girl wants this holiday season. So MORE »
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I have long-held (and I think well-founded) suspicions regarding noisy, blinky toys, shaped from years of dealing with baby and toddler toys, whose sole purpose often seems oriented toward driving any adults within earshot COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY INSANE. I mean, does EVERYTHING have to squeal and honk and GOOD LORD, THE RELENTLESSLY LOOPED TWITTERING SACCARINE MORE »
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As parents, we’re always spewing out advice to our kids. Do this, don’t do that, focus on this, don’t focus on that… But if you had to actually sit down, put pen to paper, and write out — all permanent-like — your best life advice for your child, would would be included? What would you MORE »
Yes, that season is again upon us, folks! And let’s be honest: the sooner you begin organizing that holiday shopping list, the less certifiably insane you’re likely to be in just a few short weeks, when the REAL Holiday Shopping Crunch begins. With that in mind, I’m here to help make things a little easier MORE »
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I live in Baltimore, MD, so like many of you on the east coast of the U.S. I’m currently hunkered down indoors with my loved ones, awaiting the coming of the great FrankenStormpocalypse the talking heads on TV have promised us. But how can one best pass the time while anticipating such an epic and MORE »
When I was pregnant with my daughter, I gained close to 65 pounds. Yes, you heard right: six-five. In retrospect, I think a lot of that weight got packed on in the wake of some kind of pregnancy-induced sense of maternal blamelessness, of sudden relief/release from the burden of keeping up with our society’s perversely anorexic MORE »
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