7 Facts About Sun Safety
One of my least favorite activities is applying sunscreen to the kids. I’d rather spend an hour trapped in the back of a U-Haul truck with all three of them and a dozen feral cats. Sunscreen...
View ArticleQuit Speaking For Your Children
At a recent birthday party, an adult, male friend said hi to my six-year-old, Anna Jane. She responded, “Hi, Princess.” I know. I cringe. Anna’s funny, but her filter is about as perfected as Mel...
View ArticleFeed Your Infant Peanuts!
Don’t really feed your infant peanuts. That would be bad. They’re significant choking hazards. However, to reduce the risk of peanut allergies, a consensus statement (from 10 European and US medical...
View ArticleDonald Trump Is Bad For Our Children
That’s right, Donald Trump is bad for our children. It has nothing to do with his goals, policies, or beliefs. To be redundantly clear, it has nothing to do with his ideology. It has to do with his...
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Mourning
Thanks to Mark and Sarah Batory for allowing me to share their powerful story. I admire their strength and faith. This is copied from their site, The Batory Chronicles. “I don’t even know what to...
View ArticleThe Hip/Nae Nae and Other Parenting Gems
Want parenting perspective? Take two months off of work for hip surgery. It’s best described as a prolonged incarceration with three tireless, combative, preschool Tasmanian Devils and an overworked...
View ArticleMiddle Child Day!
After one of our seventeen potty-stops while driving home from Ohio last weekend, Anna Jane interrupted one of my rants about how spectacularly the Maurers can turn a simple eight hour drive into a...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Sex
Unquestionably, the most awkward time I ever spent with my industrial arts teaching, weightlifting, football coaching father, was when he gave me the (forced) sex talk. It involved my masculine father...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Open Letter Writers
Please stop writing inflammatory open letters. It seems like a new open letter headlines the news every day — to a football coach about how he coaches or speaks, a CEO on how she runs a company or a...
View ArticleThank You, Doctor Obvious
I share with readers the top ten academic studies of 2016 that made me laugh (and cringe). These are scientific studies or reports, published in professional pediatric journals, and claiming to advance...
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