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The ‘Internet Generation’ needs adults to get involved in online safety
Kids are connected these days, and parents need to get involved in keeping them safe online. Parents of the first ?plugged-in? generation have challenges our parents never even imagined. It can be a part-time job to keep track of…
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Fathers and Daughters and Moms: Is There Room for Everyone?
My father died of a heart attack when I was 3 years old. I went to sleep with a father, and by the time I woke, I no longer had one. My mother, in her grief, subsequently removed all traces of him.
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Will Swearing Harm Your Child?
Most parents try hard to protect their children from hearing swear words, and children are often punished or reprimanded when they use profane language. The federal government seeks to protect children from hearing swear words through censoring. How harmful is swearing to children?
Source: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cutting-edge-leadership/201205/will-swearing-harm-your-child
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Things I didn’t know before becoming a mom
My oldest daughter, Lily, shortly after my mother’s death in 2009.Photo by Joe Grekin Sadly, on the heels of becoming a mom myself ? when my first daughter, Lily, was just 8 months old ? my own mother died suddenly,…
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Be the Anti-Bully: There?s No Such Thing as an Innocent Bystander
To be a person of character, to make a difference, to save a life…PARENTS have to learn how to be an anti-bully.
Source: http://parentingpink.com/be-the-anti-bully/
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Weekend happenings?
What is everybody doing this weekend? Its a long weekend for our Canadian friends, will you be doing anything special? Is Victoria Day observed with civic celebrations, parades, sales at department stores, etc? I recall that you all said that this marks the time that it is considered “safe to plant” in the garden…will you be working in the yard this weekend?
I hope that its a productive or relaxing weekend for all.
Source: http://forums.ivillage.com/t5/Daily-Chit-Chat/Weekend-happenings/m-p/119304313#M20420
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New Crib Safety Standards Announced
By National Institutes of Health
On June 28th, new mandatory safety standards for infant cribs will take effect, helping to ensure a safe sleep environment for infants in the United States. The new standards released by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) require manufacturers and retailers to meet new safer crib standards, which include stopping the manufacture and sale of dangerous, traditional, drop side cribs. According to the CPSC, the new standards will ensure that mattress supports are made stronger, that crib hardware is more durable, and that crib safety testing is more rigorous.
Gaps may form between the crib mattress and the drop side rails, due to errors in assembly or installation or to wear or malfunction from use. Infants can become trapped in the gap and suffocate as a result. According to the CPSC, detaching drop side rails were associated with at least 32 infant deaths since 2000.
The new standards are an important step in ensuring a safe environment for infants as they sleep. Parents and caregivers also can take several other steps to ensure a safe sleep environment for their infants. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that infants not share a bed with adults or other children and should sleep in a separate but nearby place, such as a crib that meets safety standards, to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The risk of SIDS has been shown to be reduced when the infant sleeps in the same room as the mother. The AAP recommends that the infant’s crib or bassinet be placed in the parents’ bedroom. Infants should never sleep on a couch or armchair.
Other important steps to ensure a safe sleep environment and to reduce the risk of SIDS are to:
– Always place an infant on his or her back to sleep, for naps and at night. Infants who sleep on their backs have a lower risk of SIDS than do infants placed on their stomachs or sides. Infants who usually sleep on their backs face an even greater risk of SIDS if placed on their stomachs.
– Place infants for sleep on a firm sleep surface, such as a safety approved crib mattress with a fitted sheet. Infants should never be placed on a soft surface, such as a pillow, quilt, or sheepskin.
– Keep pillows, cushioned crib bumpers, toys, loose bedding, and other soft objects out of an infant’s sleep area. All items should be kept away from an infant’s face.
Additional information on reducing the risk of SIDS is available from the NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Source: http://www.opposingviews.com/i/new-crib-safety-standards-announced
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New Crib Safety Standards Announced
By National Institutes of Health
On June 28th, new mandatory safety standards for infant cribs will take effect, helping to ensure a safe sleep environment for infants in the United States. The new standards released by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) require manufacturers and retailers to meet new safer crib standards, which include stopping the manufacture and sale of dangerous, traditional, drop side cribs. According to the CPSC, the new standards will ensure that mattress supports are made stronger, that crib hardware is more durable, and that crib safety testing is more rigorous.
Gaps may form between the crib mattress and the drop side rails, due to errors in assembly or installation or to wear or malfunction from use. Infants can become trapped in the gap and suffocate as a result. According to the CPSC, detaching drop side rails were associated with at least 32 infant deaths since 2000.
The new standards are an important step in ensuring a safe environment for infants as they sleep. Parents and caregivers also can take several other steps to ensure a safe sleep environment for their infants. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that infants not share a bed with adults or other children and should sleep in a separate but nearby place, such as a crib that meets safety standards, to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The risk of SIDS has been shown to be reduced when the infant sleeps in the same room as the mother. The AAP recommends that the infant’s crib or bassinet be placed in the parents’ bedroom. Infants should never sleep on a couch or armchair.
Other important steps to ensure a safe sleep environment and to reduce the risk of SIDS are to:
– Always place an infant on his or her back to sleep, for naps and at night. Infants who sleep on their backs have a lower risk of SIDS than do infants placed on their stomachs or sides. Infants who usually sleep on their backs face an even greater risk of SIDS if placed on their stomachs.
– Place infants for sleep on a firm sleep surface, such as a safety approved crib mattress with a fitted sheet. Infants should never be placed on a soft surface, such as a pillow, quilt, or sheepskin.
– Keep pillows, cushioned crib bumpers, toys, loose bedding, and other soft objects out of an infant’s sleep area. All items should be kept away from an infant’s face.
Additional information on reducing the risk of SIDS is available from the NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Source: http://www.opposingviews.com/i/new-crib-safety-standards-announced
Weekend Chit Chat 5/19-5/20
Good morning all!
I hope your weekend is going well so far.
Mine is ok. David had to work until midnight last night and he’s already back at work again today. 
Oh well, I will get to see him tomorrow.
I’m going to work on the Kansas City trip today and play online (i.e. look at cruise ships & Disney 
).
Source: http://forums.ivillage.com/t5/Days-of-Our-Lives/Weekend-Chit-Chat-5-19-5-20/m-p/119303963#M48040
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Fathers and Daughters and Moms: Is There Room for Everyone?
My father died of a heart attack when I was 3 years old. I went to sleep with a father, and by the time I woke, I no longer had one. My mother, in her grief, subsequently removed all traces of him.
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Level II u/s today
And everything looked great. Baby cooperated & the tech got all of the shots she needed. Everything measured within range and looked fine. He’s 11oz now and his heart rate was 150 bpm. We saw him do soooo many cute things – stretch, flail around, suck his thumb, etc. It was awesome.
After checking him out, the tech measured my cervix and it’s great too. Even more closed now (4.2 cm) than the past three times (3.8 cm, and they want it over 2.5), so I’ve been “graduated” to four week appts again. I’m glad things are ok and happy to be seen on a more regular schedule, but it’s also been nice seeing the babe every two weeks! I bet I’ll be neurotic as hell by June 15. :) Overall it was a great appt though & I’m just thrilled things are going so well.
Oh and my bp was nice and low and I still haven’t gained any weight. So I’m happy about that. As long as the little boy is growing well, I’m happy to keep my weight down at this point!
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When New Mom Can’t Breast-Feed, Dozens of Women Help Out
Filed under: In The News, Breast-Feeding
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Eva van Dok Pinkley, a Brooklyn, N.Y., actress and magazine researcher can’t breast-feed her newborn because she had a double mastectomy last year.
No matter. The London Daily Mail reports 25 women are pumping and donating their breast milk.
“What they are doing, it’s not easy to do,” van Dok Pinkley tells the newspaper. “I’m just stunned at the amount of trouble that they are going through for me. I think of them and what they have done and give thanks.”
Van Dok Pinkley got pregnant last September after a battle with breast cancer so intense she had given up having children. She had abandoned hope after miscarriages, failed fertility treatments and then her cancer.
When she and her husband, Stuart, finally found out they were having a baby, she knew she couldn’t breast-feed. So she began doing research on the Internet.
After consultations with doctors and lactation consultants, the Mail reports, she began asking for donations from other expecting mothers at her yoga studio, via email lists and through friends.
Among the women who responded was Kristi Guigliano, the mother of an 8-month-old boy.
“The first time Eva and I met, it was a very emotional thing to, first of all, have found someone so perfect, so close and so in need of the milk,” Guigliano tells the newspaper.
The Mail reports the women are either ongoing donors, one-time donors or soon-to-be moms who have pledged milk if they have some left over.
“When they told me what they were doing, I thought, ‘Only in New York,’ ” Stuart Van Dok Pinkley tells the Mail.
Only in New York? Not really.
In 2009, ParentDish reported on Robbie Goodrich, a widowed English professor in Marquette, Mich. When his wife died shortly after his son, Moses, was born, more than two dozen women shared their breast milk with the infant.
Related: Women Rally Around Widower to Breast-Feed Infant Son
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Make your own Wayang-Kulit: Indonesian Shadow Puppets
Photo by Masgatotkaca, via Wikimedia Commons In this activity, you and your child can put on a show with these creative Wayang-Kulit: Indonesian Shadow Puppets. The History of Wayang-Kulit In Indonesia, primarily Java and Bali, shadow puppet plays are…
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Attributes of a Mother?The Good, the Bad, and the Funny
Why do we, as a society love, laugh at, and love to hate mothers? Is it sexism or the power and universality of the mother archetype? Perhaps it is a bit of both. This article presents a light-hearted look at the mother role in the words of popular writers and celebrities.
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Be the Anti-Bully: There?s No Such Thing as an Innocent Bystander
To be a person of character, to make a difference, to save a life…PARENTS have to learn how to be an anti-bully.
Source: http://parentingpink.com/be-the-anti-bully/
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The ‘Internet Generation’ needs adults to get involved in online safety
Kids are connected these days, and parents need to get involved in keeping them safe online. Parents of the first ?plugged-in? generation have challenges our parents never even imagined. It can be a part-time job to keep track of…
What was your immediate reaction when you were told you are going to be a Grandparent?
:smileysurprised:Honestly, my first reaction was bittersweet. Not because my daughter was now going to be a Mom, but because I didn’t feel old enough to be a GRANDMA! Totally selfish emotions took over for a very brief period of time. Once I saw my Grandson, all the self pity of growing older melted away. I realize now that the grandkids keep us young! :heart:
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Any music, theater or other arts parents out there?
My kids are in several arts. Dd played flute and sang for years, but stopped her Junior year and has switched to photo and ceramics. She loves it and has several pieces in shows. Ds is in band and jazz band and is looking forward to doing these in high school. They have both done theater in the past, as well as choir. Both kids are also in writing clubs.
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Mutilation – some questions
Please see this thread on The Circumcision Debate board. Your ‘Intact’ views are important.
Christopher
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Eat, Pray, Invoice: Keeping Track of Who Owes What
Most acts of kindness aren’t random but calculated. Rewards and punishments are blends of feedback on past behavior and feedforward toward future behavior.
Source: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ambigamy/201205/eat-pray-invoice-keeping-track-who-owes-what
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RF carseat for tall twins and tall husband
I have 14 month old twins and they se to be tall like my 6’4″ husband. We purchased the Safety1st complete air 65 and installed them. They were way too tall with my husband in the car (ford flex). Dilemma. I want to keeps girls RF for as long as possible but cannot buy a new carseat x2 every year. Does anyone have suggestions? Please help!
Kids With Special Needs Get (Gasp!) Bullied
Filed under: In The News, Special Needs, Bullying
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Brace yourselves for a shocker. Kids with special needs — who struggle with medical, emotional or emotional issues — tend to have more problems in school and are bullied more often than other kids.
Researchers at the Poindexter Institute for the Painfully Obvious reached this conclusion after examining their middle school yearbooks and remembering how they spent all of seventh grade trapped inside their lockers while asking if someone would please pass them their inhalers.
Their conclusions were backed up by researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
According to U.S. News & World Report, researchers there tracked more than 1,450 kids in fourth through sixth grades from 34 rural schools. A third of the kids had problems such as asthma, chronic pain, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disabilities or emotional and behavioral problems.
These children were a more likely to be (wait for it, wait for it) bullied or feel socially isolated. These conclusions were further confirmed by everyone who has ever attended public school.
“Health affects school performance,” lead researcher Christopher Forrest tells U.S. News. “Special health care needs have manifold effects on school outcomes that increase the likelihood that these kids are not going to successfully transition to adulthood.”
Researchers obtained data from kids and their parents from a questionnaire. Children were classified as having a special health care need if they had a condition lasting at least 12 months and needed prescription drugs, therapy, counseling or other services.
School records on attendance, grades and standardized tests also were analyzed.
Kids with special health care needs “have significant differences in their engagement in school and their school relationships as well as academic achievement,” Forrest adds. “It sets up a trajectory for these kids that’s highly distressing.”
Communities can help if they look at the whole child, he says.
“I also believe it’s the kind of challenge we’re starting to understand in the 21st century,” Forrest says. “We have to look at the child as a whole person … and recognize that individuals need health systems and education systems to work together.”
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Source: http://www.parentdish.com/2011/07/28/kids-with-special-needs-get-gasp-bullied/
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Mom & Babysitter Trade Boy, 3, for Meth
How much meth does it take before you sell your soul?
A 3 year old boy is in critical condition pursuant to a series of events that saw him sold by its babysitter for a fix of meth to two men who used him as a sex toy, bludgeoned his head, forced him to drink bleach, before scraping the base of his head and part of brain out on the sidewalk.
From there the boy was exposed to bleach where he suffered chemical burns on his neck, face and eyes, before being left to dangle by a dog collar from the ceiling.
The boy was then allegedly raped and tortured for a few more hours before being returned to his mother, Leana Lauck, who instead of rushing the boy to emergency (how the boy was still alive is a mystery) continued smoking the meth that the two men had previously given her and the babysitter- Jennifer Chapman.
According to police reports the boy suffered for 18 hours before being taken to the Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma city.
To date the two men have yet to be apprehended, in the interim Ms Lauck and Ms Chapman have been both charged with child neglect.
On the surface one can argue that these women deserve all sorts of punishment and have failed miserably at being conscientious guardians, or even better- failed to even be decent human beings, but what will the state, all the therapy workers, the police have to say to this boy should he survive and he looks at himself in the mirror one day and wonders why he resembles the pungent backend of a collective self wound aimed at his innocent being.
Isn’t it time you finally put the meth away too?
Source: http://www.opposingviews.com/i/mom-babysitter-trade-boy-3-for-meth
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Canadian Playgrounds and Schools Bring Back Risk of Nature
When I was a preschool teacher, we wanted to improve our school play yard to be more developmentally appropriate and natural. Â The only equipment that was allowed to be purchased and installed had to first be approved by the school’s insurance company and installed by a million dollar bonded contractor. Needless to say, our $30,000 [...]
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For parents hosting teen parties this spring — let’s talk
Spring is upon us and the school year is dwindling down. In many households with high school students, there will be parties and celebrations for proms and graduations. Parents of high school students I am going to ask you a…
“Womb Tube” Trend: Women Sharing Pregnancy and Infertility Online
This spring much was written about the latest web phenomenon: women taking a pregnancy test, and filming and posting their pregnancy results on YouTube. Good Morning America also did a segment entitled ”Womb Tube”: Should You Broadcast Pregnancy? And bloggers, such as Marisa Meltzer at Slate, chimed in with their opinions.
If you search for something like “pregnancy test results” on the video site, close to 2,000 results come up. The videos cross age and racial barriers, and range from 20-somethings ignoring the age-old advice of waiting three months before you tell anyone you are pregnant (squealing with delight at the plus sign while the husband films the scene) to heartwarming positive IVF surrogacy pregnancy test result videos.
And then there are the videos that are more heartwrenching — the ones of women struggling to conceive and and are sharing their IVF failure. One video from 2009 by mbgodsgift, entitled Pregnancy Results — IVF, ICSI Journey Video #6 shares the story of a woman overseas with her husband in the military. She did not get pregnant after her procedure, but says thank you for everyone’s prayers and talks about how everyone’s comments kept her “sane.” The comments are extensive and extremely supportive.
So, is YouTube another way to share the infertility experience and gain support — similar to blogging, Facebook and Twitter. Is watching or posting these videos healthy for women coping with infertility? FertilityAuthority would like to know what you think. Please share your thoughts with us on Facebook and Twitter!
Source: http://www.opposingviews.com/i/womb-tube-trend-women-sharing-pregnancy-and-infertility-online
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Understanding Children?s Emotions: Pride and Shame
Discussions of children?s motivations and behavior too often overlook the importance of feelings of pride and shame. A child?s need to feel proud, and to avoid feelings of shame, is a fundamental motivation, and remains fundamental, throughout her life.
Mothers Against Fracking
Fracking sounds like such a dirty word, and it is. Â I don’t want my kids using it. Â Even though it is not a curse word, it is one of the dirtiest words I know literally! What is fracking? Â It’s not the latest teenage slang word; it describes a mining process that is polluting our earth [...]
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Icy Intimacy: A 3-Step Solution
Do you find your spouse controlling, but not intimate? Is she too easily angered after sex or avoids it altogether? Does he hold back while devoting all his warmth to the kids? Are you living like room mates, without the sweet softness of devoted lovers?
Source: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-intelligent-divorce/201205/icy-intimacy-3-step-solution
The Myth of the Perfect Mother
What’s so hard about mothering? Aside from being everything to everyone — including the eternal fountain of love, connectedness, support, and protection — moms function as personal shoppers, cooks, janitors, bankers, and repairmen.
Source: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/our-gender-ourselves/201205/the-myth-the-perfect-mother
Be the Anti-Bully: There?s No Such Thing as an Innocent Bystander
To be a person of character, to make a difference, to save a life…PARENTS have to learn how to be an anti-bully.
Source: http://parentingpink.com/be-the-anti-bully/
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Make your own Rangoli design
Photo by Flickr user Art Gallery of New South Wales In this activity, you and your child can create a vibrant Rangoli Design using just a few common supplies in your home. The History of Rangoli Designs: Rangoli is…
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Update on our meeting
We can sign out of the IEP whenever we want & the P has agreed to a 504pkan which better suits Niks needs. We have a math tutor & she won’t be taking math till September so she should be pretty well covered there since she’s being tutored from now till forever. The advocate called a lawyer & she is pretty certain the IEP wasn’t done legally or in the best interest of my daughter. This being highschool I can fight it all or go w/the 504 plan. My daughter wants to go w/the 504 plan, she doesn’t want to waste a class doing nothing in what they call academic lab. The other big thing is her schedule for next yr. won’t get done until this is resolved & once classes fill up she will be limited on what she can take. I’m leaning on putting this 504 into place because at this age my dd has to feel comfortable & she has 3 more yrs. in this school & I can’t see much reason into most of her HS yrs. being spent in battle & her schedule being in jeopardy & she not getting what she needs to apply to college.
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Dumb Mom?s Guide. So Your Child Failed His Hearing Screening?
Recently, #3 had his 4 year old physical appointment with his pediatrician. In addition to his overall good healthy, we learned that he is the average height and weight of a 6 year old. Score! That basketball scholarship might work out yet! The doc did all of the developmental tests, checked for scoliosis, and informed [...]
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Parents’ Attitude Affects Kids’ Diabetes
Filed under: In The News, Special Needs, Research Reveals: Toddlers & Preschoolers, Research Reveals: Big Kids, Research Reveals: Tweens, Health
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Kids with diabetes need to regulate their diets, monitor their blood-sugar levels and take the appropriate amount of insulin.
They also need parents with the right attitude.
Researchers at the Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel find that parenting styles and attitudes play a big role in how well teenagers manage their diabetes.
Internal Medicine News reports lead researcher Maayan Shorer and her colleagues defined three parenting styles:
- Authoritative. This is characterized by clear limits on the child set by the parents in a caring, noncoercive manner.
- Permissive. This is characterized by few efforts by the parents to direct and limit the child’s behavior.
- Authoritarian. This is characterized by a coercive, harsh and punitive approach and parental attempts to control the child’s behavior.
Researchers looked at 100 adolescents, as well as 79 mothers and 63 fathers, and found an authoritative approach, especially by fathers, resulted in kids doing a better job managing their diabetes. On the flip side, kids did a lot worse when parents were either permissive or authoritarian.
The worst results came when kids picked up on a sense of helplessness, especially among mothers.
There are several morals to the story, researchers tell Internal Medicine News. One of the biggies is that dads need to get more involved.
“Unfortunately, our clinical experience along with the empirical evidence suggests that compared with mothers, fathers tend to take a too-small role in their child’s diabetes management and exert fewer efforts at monitoring the child,” Shorer says. “We believe fathers should be more engaged in their child’s routine diabetes care, and to do so, specifically, by adopting an authoritative stance.”
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Dude Mom Life. A Mother?s Day Celebration Hosted By Future Stunt Dudes.
I?m pretty sure that there is an unwritten life rule out there that says that no matter what, on Mother?s Day, little children everywhere have to act like they were raised by wolves and therefore do not have to celebrate or even recognize the date?s existence, and they can instead proceed to snarl at each [...]
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Why did I get married in late May?! *headdesk*
Every year, more so with each kid, I question the wisdom of getting married in Late May.
We tied the knot the week after Mother’s Day, the week before Memorial Day, and the week after that, is my birthday! Every year we feel like we need to pick one thing to celebrate, because we can’t survive 4 consecutive weeks of partying.
I’m turning 39 this year, so it’s not the Big One, thankfully, because I do want a big party for that. And thank goodness, turning 40 will coincide with our 9th, and not our 10th, Wedding Anniversary.
Wish I could push the date up or back. Midsummer when there’s nothing else to do, maybe.
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Dude Mom Life. A Mother?s Day Celebration Hosted By Future Stunt Dudes.
I?m pretty sure that there is an unwritten life rule out there that says that no matter what, on Mother?s Day, little children everywhere have to act like they were raised by wolves and therefore do not have to celebrate or even recognize the date?s existence, and they can instead proceed to snarl at each [...]
Worried About Your Quiet Child? From One Mother to Another
I know you worry. You?re told at every parent-teacher conference: ?Your child is so quiet? or ?She needs to speak up more.? You think to yourself, ?How will my child succeed in school when so much is based on group participation??
When New Mom Can’t Breast-Feed, Dozens of Women Help Out
Filed under: In The News, Breast-Feeding
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Eva van Dok Pinkley, a Brooklyn, N.Y., actress and magazine researcher can’t breast-feed her newborn because she had a double mastectomy last year.
No matter. The London Daily Mail reports 25 women are pumping and donating their breast milk.
“What they are doing, it’s not easy to do,” van Dok Pinkley tells the newspaper. “I’m just stunned at the amount of trouble that they are going through for me. I think of them and what they have done and give thanks.”
Van Dok Pinkley got pregnant last September after a battle with breast cancer so intense she had given up having children. She had abandoned hope after miscarriages, failed fertility treatments and then her cancer.
When she and her husband, Stuart, finally found out they were having a baby, she knew she couldn’t breast-feed. So she began doing research on the Internet.
After consultations with doctors and lactation consultants, the Mail reports, she began asking for donations from other expecting mothers at her yoga studio, via email lists and through friends.
Among the women who responded was Kristi Guigliano, the mother of an 8-month-old boy.
“The first time Eva and I met, it was a very emotional thing to, first of all, have found someone so perfect, so close and so in need of the milk,” Guigliano tells the newspaper.
The Mail reports the women are either ongoing donors, one-time donors or soon-to-be moms who have pledged milk if they have some left over.
“When they told me what they were doing, I thought, ‘Only in New York,’ ” Stuart Van Dok Pinkley tells the Mail.
Only in New York? Not really.
In 2009, ParentDish reported on Robbie Goodrich, a widowed English professor in Marquette, Mich. When his wife died shortly after his son, Moses, was born, more than two dozen women shared their breast milk with the infant.
Related: Women Rally Around Widower to Breast-Feed Infant Son
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No Sugar, Vegan Chocolate Cupcake Recipe with Surprise Ingredient (Avocado!)
Last week, my daughter and I made these delicious vegan chocolate cupcakes. The recipe was sent to us by her grandmother. Â We modified the ingredients based upon what we have (I have included the modifications below in parentheses). These cupcakes are very rich and moist thanks to a surprise ingredient: Â avocado! Â You can’t taste the [...]
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Beauty and Brains: Homeless Teen Girl Could $100,000 Science Prize!
Samantha Garvey is one amazing teenage girl who is living proof that girls really can do anything they set their mind to.
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Chelsea Community Hospital to hold mom-to-mom sale at St. Paul Church
File photo | AnnArbor.comThe Chelsea Community Hospital is holding its first Mom 2 Mom Sale on May 12 with proceeds benefiting the hospital’s Children?s Center. The center provides child care for infants through fifth grade for Chelsea and the surrounding…
Dumb Mom Moments. On Getting Your Kids Drunk & Stuff.
Please welcome my friend, and fellow Dude Mom, Rita from Fighting Off Frumpy to the Dumb Mom stage today. Hers is a cautionary tale that reminds us that cooking sherry can be as fun as wine when used incorrectly! When Dumb Mom asked me to write a guest post about a ?Dumb Mom moment,? I [...]
Source: http://parentingbydummies.com/2012/05/dumb-mom-moments-on-getting-your-kids-drunk-stuff.html
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Angry too often
I get mad a lot. It’s not normal frustration. It’s real anger. I just feel like nothing is going my way right now and I’m not responding appropriately at all. (And nothing has happened to warrant this anger. I got mad at my kids for bickering, I got mad at the store for discontinuing my favorite ice cream, etc. I know I’m overreacting to be so angry.)
I think it’s the hormones. I used to get horrible PMS anger, so I was on birth control pills to help control my moods. Now, being pregnant has brought back all that PMS anger even though it’s not PMS! I rarely cry like stereotypical pregnant woman. I just get mad.
Is anyone else angry? Have you found any solutions to stay calm? (Please don’t suggest drinking tea, I am not a tea fan, and I feel like everyone just says “Drink a cup of tea, it will help you relax” but I can’t stand the stuff.)
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Drunk Woman Charged With Using Breast Milk as Weapon
Sometimes I really love people. There is such a wide variety of people all over the world and I could read these stories all day.
On Saturday morning around 1am, police in Waterville, Ohio were called to a domestic violence situation. A husband called police because his wife had struck him several times. Both were drunk. When police went to the car where the wife was locked in, she started dropping f bombs and calling them other names.
It is at that point, things began to get crazy. The woman told officers she was a breastfeeding mother, removed her right breast from her bra and began spraying breast milk all over the police and the car. She faces charges of domestic violence, assault, obstructing official business, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
When she appeared in court yesterday, she pleaded not guilty and also told the court she is a second and third grade teacher. Oh, and also a breast feeding mother, and took out her breast and began spraying the judge and the courtroom. Oh, well that last part I made up, but it would have been classic and a great SNL skit.
Thanks Jennifer.
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No Sugar, Vegan Chocolate Cupcake Recipe with Surprise Ingredient (Avocado!)
Last week, my daughter and I made these delicious vegan chocolate cupcakes. The recipe was sent to us by her grandmother. Â We modified the ingredients based upon what we have (I have included the modifications below in parentheses). These cupcakes are very rich and moist thanks to a surprise ingredient: Â avocado! Â You can’t taste the [...]
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Does Gay History Belong in School Textbooks?
There is a bill moving through the California legislature that would require history textbooks to include a chapter on gay history, and thus taught to schoolkids. Fox News is predictably outraged:
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Beyonce: “I Always Said I Would Have A Baby At 30″
Beyonce pregnancy rumours have been circulating for years, and are continually shot down by the singer.
However, in a recent interview with Piers Morgan, the Sasha Fierce singer said she has less than one year to make her baby dreams come true – if she plans on following her life plan, that is.
“I always said I’d have a baby at 30. I’m 29,” she said on Monday’s Piers Morgan Tonight.
She also teased: “But I also said I was going to retire at 30. I’m not retiring.”
So, will there be a bambino for her and Jay-Z soon?
“Only God knows,” Beyonce exclaimed.
The singer, now 29, also told Morgan she can’t wait to turn 30 in September.
“I feel like 30 is the ideal age, because you’re mature enough to know who you are and have your boundaries and your standards and not be afraid or too polite, but young enough to be a young woman. I’m so looking forward to it.”
I am personally quite excited by this statement. Beyonce would make a fantastic mum, and can you imagine the talent this mini Beyonce/Jay Z child would have!
Check out a snippet of her interview here.
Source: http://www.opposingviews.com/i/beyonce-i-always-said-i-would-have-a-baby-at-30
Allison Winn Scotch: Balancing Motherhood and Career
I stepped back and thought, “what would happen if I opted out my career? Who would I then be?” The answer was (and is) both murky and scary, but one worth exploring.
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Mother’s Day
There?s a cultural tradition of thinking of nature as female: Mother Earth bears and supports her children; Mother Nature is as unpredictable as a teenager with premenstrual hormone swings; Gaia is the universal mother, mother of all the gods and by extension everything else.
Source: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/being-green/201205/mothers-day
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P’kolino Little One’s Art Easel
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The P’kolino Little One’s Art Easel is two-sided for double the fun. Credit: pkolino.com
Want to foster your kids’ love of art, but get tired of picking up loose pieces of paper and broken crayons off the floor all the time? Set them up with an art easel!
This new double-sided easel from P’kolino allows two children to create at the same time. One side has a chalkboard, the other a whiteboard. Just add a paper roll when the lil’ ones feel inspired to make their drawings more permanent.
P’kolino Little One’s Art Easel is available Aug. 15, but can be preordered now, $80, at pkolino.com.
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Kids With Special Needs Get (Gasp!) Bullied
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Brace yourselves for a shocker. Kids with special needs — who struggle with medical, emotional or emotional issues — tend to have more problems in school and are bullied more often than other kids.
Researchers at the Poindexter Institute for the Painfully Obvious reached this conclusion after examining their middle school yearbooks and remembering how they spent all of seventh grade trapped inside their lockers while asking if someone would please pass them their inhalers.
Their conclusions were backed up by researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
According to U.S. News & World Report, researchers there tracked more than 1,450 kids in fourth through sixth grades from 34 rural schools. A third of the kids had problems such as asthma, chronic pain, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disabilities or emotional and behavioral problems.
These children were a more likely to be (wait for it, wait for it) bullied or feel socially isolated. These conclusions were further confirmed by everyone who has ever attended public school.
“Health affects school performance,” lead researcher Christopher Forrest tells U.S. News. “Special health care needs have manifold effects on school outcomes that increase the likelihood that these kids are not going to successfully transition to adulthood.”
Researchers obtained data from kids and their parents from a questionnaire. Children were classified as having a special health care need if they had a condition lasting at least 12 months and needed prescription drugs, therapy, counseling or other services.
School records on attendance, grades and standardized tests also were analyzed.
Kids with special health care needs “have significant differences in their engagement in school and their school relationships as well as academic achievement,” Forrest adds. “It sets up a trajectory for these kids that’s highly distressing.”
Communities can help if they look at the whole child, he says.
“I also believe it’s the kind of challenge we’re starting to understand in the 21st century,” Forrest says. “We have to look at the child as a whole person … and recognize that individuals need health systems and education systems to work together.”
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Tuesday Tip: Take a Break
By Greater Good Science Center
In today?s hyperbusy world, most people don?t take real breaks. ?We are poisoned by the hypnotic belief,? writes Wayne Muller in his inspirational book Sabbath, ?that good things come only through unceasing determination and tireless effort?and so we can never truly rest.?
It is a myth that we?ll only succeed ?through unceasing determination and tireless effort,? of course. Olympic athletes must rest or they get hurt. Fruit trees forced to produce for more than one season lose their ability to bear fruit. And parents can slowly develop sleep debt so deep and burnout so profound that we are left too exhausted to function.
Today, lay down. Take a nap. Goof off a little. Stop to chat. All in the name of greater productivity—and happiness.
© 2011 Christine Carter, Ph.D.
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Pregnant Man Sheds Baby Weight, Shows Off New Bod
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Yeah, we get jealous when we see the Madonnas and the Victoria Beckhams and the Jessica Albas of the world go from pregnant back to size 0 in what seems like a matter of hours.
Now we have Thomas Beatie to add to our list. So, no Beatie isn’t a super star celebrity, but the transgender man has made headlines for giving birth to three children.
And, now, the New York Daily News reports, he’s gotten himself in post-baby shape that would even make Madge envious.
The Oregonian, 37, known in the press as Pregnant Man, has traded his baby weight for ripped abs, according to the newspaper, and E! reports it was done through a combination of diet, exercise and testosterone doses.
E! also adds Beatie is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Beatie, born a woman, has three children with his wife, Nancy, the Daily News reports. He says he does not plan to have a full sex change, according to E!, as he says he is legally considered a man already.
The Daily News reports Beatie had 10 years of sexual reassignment therapy, including chest reconstruction surgery.
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Mother’s Day Vent
This whole post is gonna be nothing but a vent so feel free to skip it!
My DS is 3…I have yet to get any special “attention” for Mother’s Day from DH. It is so frustrating. I’m not even asking for an expensive gift. A construction paper card would make my day. Not a single acknowledgement for the past three years!! The kicker though, his mom AND sister both get flowers and a card at the least. We discussed this last year and today i woke up thinking it would be different. Silly me.
Yet come Father’s day, I will have a nice day planned out for him.
On top of that, my mother is visiting from VA. We don’t talk. She is in her own little world and doesn’t bother with me until she needs something. So now I have to spend this already miserable day around someone even more miserable. I wish this day was over.
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Poetry cafe teaches kids lessons about language, self-expression
Trevor at Poetry Cafe – South Arbor Academy. Photo by Joshua Verges The poetry café was the culminating event for Ms. Whiston’s seventh grade students at South Arbor Academy. After their unit on poetry, parents were invited to hear…
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So NOT Dumb: Blog Ads For Sale.
So, I?m doing something I thought I?d never do: offering ad space for purchase. I know. All of the cool kids are doing it. So, what?s taken me so long? Well, basically, it?s a matter of worth. I really, really, really wanted to make sure that an ad for you on my site would be [...]
Source: http://parentingbydummies.com/2012/05/so-not-dumb-blog-ads-for-sale.html
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Comfortable with Discomfort
By Greater Good Science Center
Yesterday, I dropped my kids off at a rustic sleep-a-way camp in the high Sierras, where they will be for the next two weeks.
The drop-off didn?t go very well.
When I was a kid, I begged and begged to go to sleep-a-way camp with my best friend Rory. I did extra chores to earn it, and I counted the days until I got there. I don?t remember being homesick, or sad at the drop off. I remember feeling wild and free. I loved the horses and the outdoors and ceramics. I got postcards from my teachers. It was awesome.
My kids have had mixed feelings about going to camp: they were excited, but also scared. ?TWO WEEKS!?? my youngest cried when I told her what, to me, was great news: They were going to summer camp! ?They have horses!? I said cheerfully, trying to drum up excitement. ?And sailing! I?ve never been sailing myself,? I mourned. ?You?ll get to do it before I do!?
I said this knowing full well that sailing is actually not on my daughters? bucket list. It?s on mine.
The kids have spent the last few weeks readying for camp and making serious sister pacts to stick together. My younger daughter, Molly, was particularly concerned about what would happen if her older sister made friends first. Would Fiona and she still pick the same activities? Could Molly join Fi with her new friends? Pinky-swears of allegiance were traded, plans to sneak into each other?s cabins made.
Molly had a plan: Fiona would take care of her. She was nervous, but also excited. Fiona was calm, reassuring.
That is, until about an hour before we arrived at camp. At which point Fiona became more clammy than cool and collected. She developed vague ?not feeling well? symptoms. She was too carsick to eat lunch. When we arrived, she was faintly green. Altitude sick, I declared. ?Drink some water,? I insisted. ?Take deep breaths,? I said, taking them myself. ?Think good thoughts, Fiona. Find two things to be excited about.?
The thing is, I believe that it is important to challenge kids. To get them truly outside of their comfort zones so that they can grow. Hence two weeks instead of a mini-camp.
My desire to challenge my kids was reinforced in a recent Atlantic article about ?Why the obsession with our kids? happiness may be dooming them to unhappy adulthoods.? The gist of this article is that ?kids who always have problems solved for them believe that they don?t know how to solve problems.? And the article is right?they don?t.
The article reminded me that happiness?the often fleeting emotion?in and of itself is not the goal. That comfort?my own or my children?s?is not the goal. Instead, all of this is about how to lead a happy life. And while it?s true that a happy life comes from positive emotions (like gratitude and compassion, for example), it also comes from having the tools we need to cope with life?s inevitable difficulties and painful moments.
My kids have had their difficulties in the last few years?my divorce, a move away from a beloved school and neighborhood, a humbling medical situation?and they?ve risen to each challenge, though not without pain.
(I?d like to pause to acknowledge that even with those difficulties, my kids have a pretty cushy life. We don?t have to worry about where the next meal is coming from or where we will sleep tonight. That said, the feelings of fear the kids had anticipating me leaving them at camp were very real to all of us.)
At any rate, by sending my kids to camp, I?m sending them the message that I believe that they can manage loneliness, and homesickness, and anxiety. I believe that they can, at the tender ages of 8 and 10, handle these difficult emotions themselves, without me standing over their shoulders telling them to breathe. As crappy as it sometimes feels to me, they simply don?t always need me there, telling them what to do and what to think.
By sending kids to camp, I?m sending them the message that I think it is incredibly important to unplug: not just from electronics, but also from their well-meaning but often over-bearing mom. That it won?t kill them to not report back to me on every high point and low point of their day, every kind deed, every ?good thing.?
In sending my kids to camp, I?m making it abundantly clear what I value: real time spent outdoors, the social skills needed to make new friends, compassion (the theme of their session is kindness), and most importantly, their own autonomy.
I say all this, but of course deep down I wanted it to be easy for them. So when Fiona became so nervous as we dropped her off that she needed to lie down in the infirmary, I also became a nervous wreck.
?She?ll be fine,? the camp nurse, Tigger, reassured me. ?Now we need you to hop on that van ? it is the last one headed back to the parking lot!?
I had become the lingering parent who wouldn?t leave and who was making the whole thing worse for her kid by trying to make it better. But who could fault me for not wanting to leave my kid IN THE INFIRMARY?! I justified to myself.
In the end, Fiona rallied, and I did, too. I got on the bus and the girls began two weeks of what may be profound discomfort for us all. I?m sure the kids are experiencing the discomfort of managing loads of new challenges on their own (albeit in a very safe environment). I am managing the discomfort of not-knowing, not-connecting?of just trusting. But I?m comfortable with that.
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I love Nancy Davis Kho?s often side-splittingly funny blog ?Midlife Mixtapes.? This week she wrote on a similar theme about a difficult year she had as a child.
© 2011 Christine Carter, Ph.D.
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The Kids Are All Right, Even if Their Parents Grow Pot
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Just because the folks next door are drug dealers doesn’t mean they’re bad parents.
In fact, researchers at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children say the children of couples who operate marijuana grow rooms are often extremely healthy, physically and emotionally. And they rarely use illegal drugs.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports researchers question whether parents caught growing marijuana should automatically lose custody of their children.
“After examining 75 of the kids over several years, we came to very clear conclusions that a vast majority of these kids are doing well — well fed, well kept, doing well in school and developing well,” lead researcher Gideon Koren of the University of Toronto tells the CBC. “Taking a small child from his or her parents in a well-adapted environment causes fear, anxiety, confusion and sadness.”
Traditional procedure in Toronto, the network reports, has been to remove children from homes where illegal marijuana operations have been discovered and place the kids in foster care.
Patrick Lake, executive director of York Region Children’s Aid Society, tells the CBC child welfare workers have learned more about the effects marijuana growing operations have on children since 2006, and have changed how they maintain the children’s safety.
“We have developed a more customized and comprehensive process to determine best response, on a case-by-case basis, while looking for ways to safely maintain children with their parents or relatives,” Lake says.
Koren tells the CBC he hopes Canadian authorities will see the children of pot growers a little differently after his study.
“When police and children’s aid go into that situation, they have to look much more carefully on what happened to that child, and not blanket-wise moving kids out of their homes,” he says.
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Mom & Babysitter Trade Boy, 3, for Meth
How much meth does it take before you sell your soul?
A 3 year old boy is in critical condition pursuant to a series of events that saw him sold by its babysitter for a fix of meth to two men who used him as a sex toy, bludgeoned his head, forced him to drink bleach, before scraping the base of his head and part of brain out on the sidewalk.
From there the boy was exposed to bleach where he suffered chemical burns on his neck, face and eyes, before being left to dangle by a dog collar from the ceiling.
The boy was then allegedly raped and tortured for a few more hours before being returned to his mother, Leana Lauck, who instead of rushing the boy to emergency (how the boy was still alive is a mystery) continued smoking the meth that the two men had previously given her and the babysitter- Jennifer Chapman.
According to police reports the boy suffered for 18 hours before being taken to the Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma city.
To date the two men have yet to be apprehended, in the interim Ms Lauck and Ms Chapman have been both charged with child neglect.
On the surface one can argue that these women deserve all sorts of punishment and have failed miserably at being conscientious guardians, or even better- failed to even be decent human beings, but what will the state, all the therapy workers, the police have to say to this boy should he survive and he looks at himself in the mirror one day and wonders why he resembles the pungent backend of a collective self wound aimed at his innocent being.
Isn’t it time you finally put the meth away too?
Source: http://www.opposingviews.com/i/mom-babysitter-trade-boy-3-for-meth
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Happy Mother’s Day
I wanted to take a minute to wish you all a very Happy Mother’s Day!! Without all of your support and love, your kids would not be the wonderful kids they are today. Everyone of you is a wonderful lady and I appreciate all of you each and every day! I hope you have a lovely day!
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day : Serve With Your Family
Sit down with your family this week and plan a service project; work together, serve together and help your family learn that even the youngest members can make a meaningful difference in the lives of others.
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