By Danny Thomas I sat in the nursery holding the baby for what felt like the fifteenth hour in a row it was the morning nap… but I had spent all night in the chair rocking and shushing and holding her and her poor, sore, teething mouth… getting her down for the morning nap had […]
By Danny Thomas It’s St. Patrick’s Day… We keep trying to make family traditions for St. Patrick’s Day, none of them stick. In my head it was always a big deal with my family growing up. We certainly always ate a special meal. If not corned beef and cabbage, then something related. Sometimes we went […]
By Meika Rouda I’ve always hated my nose. It is short with a wide bridge that plateaus off the tip landing with a thud. There is nothing elegant or sculpted about it, unlike my mom’s nose, which could have been the prototype plastic surgeons used for rhinoplasty in the 80’s. My nose has […]
By: Rhona Berens, PhD, CPCC My wife, J, is 8.5 months pregnant. She insists that the 0.5 matters when you’re the one carrying the baby, and I believe her. (As anyone who has lived with a pregnant woman knows, believing /agreeing with her is imperative to everyone’s wellbeing.) Both of us have always wanted […]
By: Danny Thomas Last night I watched my daughter fall asleep while my dad read her a book that I remember him reading to me. does it get much sweeter than that? also, when I came downstairs this morning the kitchen was clean because my mother and I had done the dishes together last night […]
By: Joe Newman Gradually, during the last eight or ten years, I came to the realization that parents and teachers don’t make their most important childrearing decisions based on objective and reasoned assessments of the options available. Rather, adults make their decisions about their interactions with children based on deep-seated emotional reactions to their own […]
By: Tanya Ward Goodman My daughter is sitting on the sofa behind me while I write. She’s got a scratchy throat and a little fever and she doesn’t want to go to bed even though her eyes are heavy. Earlier, she fell asleep on my husband’s chest the way she used to when she was […]
By: Hibah Yousuf, CNNMoney.com staff reporter NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Stroller maker Maclaren announced a recall on Monday that affects about 1 million umbrella strollers that can reportedly amputate or lacerate children’s fingertips. So far, the company said there have been 12 amputations across the country. This happens when children get their fingers stuck in […]
