Today we’re talking about planned home birth and why there’s no place like home, which is often the best, safest, and most ecstatic place to have a baby. But first I have to admit my biases. Like every other person on the planet I have many. Here are some of mine: 1) I think having a baby is an amazing,…
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I Let My Kid Watch a Polar Bear Eat off a Woman’s Rear End and Other Bad Parenting Moments
Any of these bad parenting moments sound familiar?! You banged your baby’s head against the door on the way to the bathroom by mistake. You let your toddler stick a pussy willow up her nose while you were watching and somehow managed not to stop her. You forgot to take your kid to soccer practice. We all have a bad…
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On Professional Editing and Why I Charge My Friends For Advice
“Oh my God, I just don’t understand how you possibly find time to write!” People say that to me all the time. Everyone I know is a “writer,” only most people I know are not writing full-time and making a living doing so. Only completely insane people (like me) or fantastically successful people (like Anne Lamott) do that. Everyone else…
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Biggest Parenting News Stories of 2013 (The Ones You Haven’t Heard)
This year has brought good parenting news from around the world. It was pretty wonderful that the Prince William and Kate Middleton had a healthy baby boy as fans from Britain and around the world eagerly waited for news, and equally as wonderful that Pope Francis spoke out publicly in favor of breastfeeding. But then there are the parenting news…
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Everything’s for Sale … Even Positive Pregnancy Tests
Your bald beauty needs a … wig. So people will know she’s a girl. Because we need to stereotype babies as soon as possible. And it’s so embarrassing when your baby girl is mistaken for a baby boy. Really?! New parents with precious new babies are duped into buying all sorts of useless baby products. I wrote about some of these in…
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Making Facebook Memes
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time over on my Facebook parenting community page. I’ve been trying to post regularly and I’ve also been making Facebook memes. It’s all Kris Bordessa‘s fault. She has an eco-oriented, eco-friendly community Facebook page called Attainable Sustainable. She used to have about 2 LIKES. Now it has over 130,000 LIKES. No, she didn’t…
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