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Music & My Va-Va-VOOM
My sensual self has always been closely tied to music. Listening, singing, dancing have all helped me find the part of me that is confident in my sultry skin. And the more music I listen to on a...
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Clarification (and Confidence)
Listening to music wasn’t just an opportunity to think about boys. Actually, I’m not sure listening to music was ever about the boys. It was about me. Listening to music was introspective. A chance...
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Chaos & Cooties
Sometimes I want to be seen as that mom with her kids in a neat, orderly line. Everyone saying the right things, doing the right things, all on cue. Like I have a tight rein on them. I want to be...
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Late-night Wishful Thinking
Sometimes I just ache for a New York City kind of success. Like the opening scenes of Mad Men. 1960′s office in the city, house in the country, corner office, expensive suits and skinny, sexy...
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Entrenching Rhetoric
Some of us who evangelize Attachment Parenting have sinned. We too quickly villify all parents who spank as angry or cold or heartless. In reality, human experience can’t really be summed up into neat...
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Positive Parenting: Toddlers and Beyond: Nonpunitive Discipline ≠ Lazy Parenting
Positive Parenting: Toddlers and Beyond: Nonpunitive Discipline ≠ Lazy Parenting. We love to marvel at how amazing the human brain is. We are amazed at how much it grows from birth to...
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Meredith Fein Lichtenberg, CCE: Mom on Mom
“Mothers are people, not categories. . . . it’s glaringly obvious that the person speaking is tired and not thinking about what she’s saying, not thinking about all the obvious exceptions to what...
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Let’s Flesh This Out – Breastfeeding and the Bible
Aliza nursing in her early days There is a line of thought common to Christians that breastfeeding is sexual. Or, breastfeeding might not be sexual per se, but it’s still something that should be...
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Your kids are being punks because they’re BORED!
Well, you know, maybe. Have you ever met a Kindergarten teacher who did no planning? Can you imagine what chaos would ensue in a classroom that had only free time and recess? Why do we mothers expect...
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