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What Impact Does Birth Order Have?
Ive always been fascinated by birth order and how it can shape an individuals personality so significantly. When you think about it, in which order you are born is arbitrary, it’s not like all the bossy people happen to come out of the womb first…but is it coming out of the womb first that makes you bossy? Birth order can also have an impact on your personal relationships, like your marriage.
The Gift Of Play
When my siblings and I were kids growing up in Washington DC in the 1970s, afterschool activities meant playing kickball or exploring Battery Kemble Park with a few dozen other elementary school children, unsupervised by adults. Christmas presents for the luckiest families meant toys, books and stuffed animals. We never saw a flash card or…
Why I’m Teaching My Kid NOT to Share!
People make a huge deal about their kids sharing. At any given time in any given playground you will hear a chorus of moms and dads yelling, Honey, share with your sister, Lucy, can you let that other little boy use your shovel? Ian, give your friend some of your goldfish crackers!
A Mother’s Guide to Surviving the NICU
It's every prospective mother's worst nightmare: something will go wrong at birth, landing her baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). As often as this nightmare never comes true, there are some mothers for whom it becomes a reality. The NICU is a terrifying place. From the constant beeping of machines to the uncertainty…
My Son Thinks I’m a Liar
When my son was five, he had a minor obsession with Michael Jackson. Not the music, per se, but with the way Michael Jackson danced. Something about all of that moonwalking and crotch grabbing and head snapping just captured his attention, and for a solid three months, all he wanted to do was watch old Michael Jackson videos on YouTube.