Two geeky girls’ guide to the first year of motherhood.
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I was sent an advance copy of Nurtureshock: New Thinking About Children in the fall because once upon a time I wrote a tiny blog post about “praising the verb and not the noun” when talking to children.
I let it sit on my shelf with the many other books I don’t have time for.
Coincidentally, my [...]
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There is a book with a terrific title: How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (by the same ladies as Siblings Without Rivalry).
These books require homework though: deep thinking, talking to your partner, practicing on your kid, and observing the results.
As a modern mom, how could I [...]
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If you think there’s a chance you can be mistaken for a non-parent who can Work Hard and Play Hard just like any other twenty-something-single dude, then, by all means, don’t read this book.
If, however, you are struggling along (like the rest of us) to find some BALANCE between those conflicting forces of guilt [...]
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Getting to 50/50 is very well-researched and chock full of data. In fact, if you were committed to the SAHM-life before reading it, beware, this book might have you throwing out your diaper bag for a laptop bag.
I originally posed the question, “are you already at 50/50?” a few weeks ago. Here’s my nitty gritty [...]
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Julian is really really into dressing up. Every day he wears a costume for at least part of the day. He might be a chef, or Batman, a lemur, a scarecrow, AlphaPig, or a magician. While I have enjoyed the arrival of the costume catalogs over the past couple weeks, because each new [...]
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In a fit of “I want to get to 50/50 and have a perfectly balanced life in which I work 30 hours a week, my husband works 30 hours a week, and we’re totally sharing raising the kids and maintaining the house” I ordered Getting to 50/50: How Working Couples Can Have It All by [...]
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Here’s a fun little activity to squeeze in during naptime this week. Try this suggestion excerpted from the book If You Give a Mom a Martini…100 Ways to Find 10 Blissful Minutes for Yourself to bring back that loving feeling (before its gone gone gone):
TOOLS NEEDED: Wedding album and/or video
Holy Matrimony! Is that really you [...]
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I’m not so much a martini mom, but the subtitle of this book should give you a pretty good idea why I thought I’d like it: “100 ways to find 10 blissful minutes for yourself” — that’s pretty fantastic! And pretty close to our own philosophy of helping rookie moms survive the first year(s) of [...]
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It’s quite easy, and surprisingly instinctual, to yell “Get down from there! You’ll break your neck!” to the spirited child out who is balancing on one foot on the back of your couch. It’s not quite as easy to say, “Don’t talk to that guy from the blue house. He gives me the creeps.” Especially [...]
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I’ve imagined this post for months now.
It may not be of general interest, but a few months ago, Milo started to get really into balloons, so every page in Goodnight Moon that has the balloon, he’d slap the book and shout “BALLOON” (or “BOON”). I couldn’t believe that what was such a mellow little [...]
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Wona Miniati is a fellow Bay Area mom and we’re connected through one of my many new mom support groups. She doesn’t work for Trader Joe’s but she could definitely be called a fangirl of their stores and products. Together with her friend Deana Gunn they created the fabulous Cooking With All Things Trader Joe’s [...]
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Last year was Julian’s first time trick or treating. He was 3 years old plus 2 days and barely could grasp what was going on. Sure he liked to dress in a costume and look at all the decorated houses, but knocking on a door, saying “Trick or treat”, holding his bag open, and [...]
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The Rookie Mom's Handbook: 250 Activities to Do with (and Without!) Your Baby
