Posts by mamazee

Hmm my only thought is that it might be a good time to talk about the concept of gratitude - being thankful for those things you do have. And talking about simplicity and mindfulness and not finding your happiness from things outside...

I don't sweat it. Different kids get different things. In the long run, it evens out, but they don't all get the same stuff, and if someone were kind and offered something for one kid, it wouldn't even occur to me to demand that they...

I think it's really common for breastfed babies to go a long time between poops because of how efficiently they use the food (but when they do go, watch out!), but it don't remember how early that happened with my kids. They'd both go a...

We used to walk to a park near our house as a kid and it was no big deal, but I think back then (1970s) it would have been normal to drop your kids off at a park while you went grocery shopping too and then pick them up afterward. Not...

There's a coop garden not terribly far from me. I'm curious about how they work, because I don't know much about gardening but really want to learn, and I think it might be a good way to do that. Do they let newbies help out? What...

Whose fault is it if a child is overweight? I saw a TV show at one point with very overweight kids and it seemed in those cases that the parents ate poorly and fed the kids the same stuff they ate, and as much as the kids wanted. And...

One of my kids bit for a short while during a toddler aggressive phase. I tried to treat it like any other toddler aggression and be right there watching here and stop anything before it reached that point and then tell her to be gentle...

I'm reading Life After Life right now, and I'm liking it. On my list of things I'd like to read this summer: Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald The Paris Wife Life of Pi (Still haven't read that! But I have the e-book.) 11/22/63 (Still...

Lenore Skenazy is trying to change the culture by making people more used to seeing kids out playing, so if the culture changes, people will stop seeing it as something to call CPS over, and CPS will not respond. My daughter is 11 and...

I agree with Kate Morton as an author, and I'd say anything by Kate Morton would be a great choice. My favorite is The Forgotten Garden but they're all good. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is a really fun book. And Wool by Hugh Howey...