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“Are You Her Mother?”
My family loves celebrating firsts. First anything. First smile, first word, first birthday, first haircut – you get the idea. But on my daughters first day of school in her dual language (English/Korean) classroom, we got our first are you her mother? question.As a biracial mom raising multicultural children faced with questions like this, I have to remind myself that most people are just curious. My first inclination is to answer, “who do …
School Volunteer Vampires
Call it Volunteer Vampires – a dilemma many of us struggle with (and feel guilty about struggling with). In simple terms, how much to volunteer at our childrens schools?
March Astrology
Dear everyone, here comes March and what do we have? The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Neptune, Chiron, all swimming in the emotional waterworld of the ocean god. This is just how last month ended, with Mercury and Saturn retrograde, causing us to look backwards and review and re-investigate various details and make some changes.
The Standing Up Pee-er
After nearly seven years, my son has begun to pee standing up. I dont know when most boys start to pee standing up, or if they ever pee sitting down. I feel like this is the kind of thing you investigate and obsess about when youre a first time mom and youre potty training your first born. But my first born was a girl, so I missed that part, and with the second kid–well, we all know how things go with second kids. My son just sort of potty trained himself by imitating me and his sister, and I didnt really have the time or the inclination to worry about it.
My Kids Inherited My Worst Traits…
Remember when your parents used to say things to you like, someday, I hope you have a child thats exactly like you? Well, I did. And one of the most difficult things about parenthood, for me, is having to put up with my own worst qualities on a daily basis.