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Books

We give you our no-BS opinion on many books in the parenting genre from awesome cookbooks for busy parents to the book that tells your mom to step off (but you totally still love and trust her). From fun to serious. Oh, and did we mention, we have a book?!

Stocked Kitchen report, week two

August 30, 2010

I continued on with my Stocked Kitchen experiment to see if I could settle into more of a groove. The answer was kinda YES and kinda NO. We had two preschool potlucks and a multi-family camping trip and I didn’t have to go to the grocery store one extra time. How flipping awesome is that? [...]

The great Stocked Kitchen experiment, week one

August 22, 2010

Whitney turned me onto the concept of the Stocked Kitchen before I ever set eyes on it. She told me that it’s a cookbook with a set grocery list and once you buy all the stuff you can make any of 300 recipes. So clever! I totally admire the authors’ obsession with preparedness and list-making. [...]

So far, I’m loving the new Scramble!

April 19, 2010

I really enjoyed the first Six O’Clock Scramble. I tried it out as part of a four-week challenge and then consistently turned back to it whenever I need meal-planning inspiration. That said, I really really enjoy the new and improved SOS! The Six O’Clock Scramble to the Rescue: Earth-Friendly, Kid-Pleasing Dinners for Busy Families because [...]

What I love and hate about Nurtureshock

January 27, 2010

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. [...]

How to talk so kids will listen, part 1 of many

December 4, 2009

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 [...]

Happy at Work, Happy at Home?

November 8, 2009

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 [...]

Getting to 50/50 book review

October 10, 2009

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 [...]

Activity #362: Experience Monster Mania

September 27, 2009

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 one keeps [...]

You may already be at 50/50

September 25, 2009

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 [...]

Activity #437: Get high on fidelity

August 25, 2009

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 [...]

If You Give a Mom a Martini… book review

August 23, 2009

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 [...]

Predator-proofing is a little trickier than babyproofing

May 15, 2009

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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