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
The Family Pride Coalition is now offering a free Family Pride Guide: A Guide to Talking With Your Child about Political Attacks on Our Families. Their goal is to help LGBT parents talk with their children about media coverage of LGBT issues, some of which may be negative. They offer suggestions on creating a home
(Or should that be “Lesbianism, Identity, and Being a Mother”?) There’s a great dialogue about identity going on right now on two other lesbian moms’ blogs. Both Renee and Kwynne offer different perspectives on how being a mother can raise questions about and change one’s sense of self. How true. Losing my own identity–as a
While there are lots of lists around telling us how to survive the holidays, I thought I’d take a different tack and offer a few suggestions for making the most of your post-holiday time: Don’t return anything till after New Year’s. The lines will be shorter, and you’ll be saner. Don’t delay too long, however,
Happy holidays to you and your families, however you define them. No posts for a few days while we make merry here at our house.
My partner and I spent much of the last two days trying to get a fifty-year-old electric train to run around our Christmas tree (aka our non-denominational holiday bush) for our train-obsessed son. The trains are part of my ancestral set, which belonged to my uncle, then my brother and me. They’re nothing fancy–low-end O-scale
