Selectively Hovering Your Way to Your Child’s Destiny

Posted May 25 2010 by in Parenting with 11 Comments

When my friend Destiny recently tweeted she was writing a post on helicopter parents I was almost afraid to read it. I was pretty sure the intro would include a photo of me with a propeller on my head followed by  a link to this blog. Except that my friend is not mean, so I …

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If You Think I’m Crunchy

Posted Jan 23 2009 by in Parenting with 0 Comments

If you think I am crunchy, you should meet my mom. She is SUPER crunchy. The kind of crunchy that buries kitchen scraps in the backyard so she can have good compost for the veggie garden. The thing is, bless my mom’s crunchy little heart, when I was a newborn, my mom hadn’t heard of …

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