Being a mother means you can never escape. We had some friends over last night to watch the season premiere of the L Word. I was looking forward to (after our son went to bed) an evening of adult conversation, adult beverages, and watching hot women, a nice break from my toddler-focused day. To my […]
Here’s a quick and fun activity for a rainy or snowy day: Find several small plastic or foam balls among your child’s toys. Anything larger than a ping-pong ball and equal to or smaller than a tennis ball will do. (Tennis balls themselves are fine.) Take a brown paper bag or brown construction paper, and
It’s a new year, and there’s a new parenting site on the block: Parent Hacks, “a collaborative weblog of practical parenting wisdom.” It’s not specifically LGBT, but looks to be a good resource for general parenting tips. I can’t say I agree with them all, but that’s a matter of personal style. There’s still much
A new study from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm Insurance Companies (as reported by Physorg.com) concludes that children riding in SUVs have similar injury risks to children who ride in passenger cars. In fact, one of the co-authors of the study warns that appropriate child restraints and rear seating for children under
I don’t eat a lot of meat. I’d probably be vegetarian if I didn’t live with a carnivore. She’s willing to eat some vegetarian meals, though, and I’ll have fish and chicken once in a while, so we make it work. (Relationships are all about compromise, right?) Very rarely, however (often around the holidays when
My first post of 2006. I must have blinked while 2005 went by. Now my son is talking like he’s always known how, sleeping in a real bed, and otherwise acting like a boy rather than a baby. While January seems like a time for making predictions about the year, I don’t want to even
