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Because I said so. (Parenting)

Tangled

July 12, 2011 · 17 comments

Hattie Belle and I have an evening just to ourselves. I surprise her with a DVD rental: Tangled. She’s seen it, but I haven’t. “OH MY GOSH. MOMMY, YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE IT,” she says in her big, bold, OMG voice. “She’s brave and strong, and the mommy doesn’t even die.” “Good,” I say. [...]

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New post up at Single Mom at Work. Aw, go on. You know you want to.

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For a fact

June 28, 2011 · 1 comment

New post at Single Mom at Work. I know it, for a fact.

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Another new post, at Single Mom at Work.

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New post up at Work It, Mom.

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Happy Mother’s Day to all my favorite mamas. Here’s to whatever your now looks like…and everything that led you here.

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Why, yes. Blue streak and asymmetrical bob: her 10th birthday wishes, granted. The child has been ‘tweened. A moment of silence, please, for the damp envelope in my purse, stuffed with my firstborn’s freshly shorn, shiny dark curls.

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Ten.

April 18, 2011 · 7 comments

Tomorrow? She’s 10.

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I am a rock star.

February 18, 2011

New post up over at AOL ParentDish.com:

My inner child thinks I am a rock star.

I can work with that.

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I want you to know this: A colleague wrote me this morning to ask if I’d be arguing the “pro-Prozac” side of an upcoming article about prescribing medication for children and teens. I’m not writing either side of that article. I’m not sure I could. I know the pros and cons of psych meds pretty [...]

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