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Thoughts on Growing Up Inappropriately

September 8, 2010

The thing about growing up under inappropriate circumstances is that often, you don’t realize you did.
When I was nine or ten a friend and I, not to be discouraged upon finding her Mom’s stash empty, tried to smoke oregano. We did not get high. We did feel slightly more italian. I [...]

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On Just Doing It

August 23, 2010

Our youngest ate a lot of pickles that summer. The big, refrigerated kind that, when eaten by a toddler her age, take up the whole fist. She was eating one then, sitting in her portable booster seat, strapped to the folding chair inside the screen tent that we never did close the sides [...]

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Do Your Kids Know Why You’re a Pushover?

August 17, 2010

As parents go, I’m a hard ass. I have rules and those rules are enforced, black and white. If you don’t perform at an “A” level in school, work and personal behavior you won’t be living an “A” level lifestyle. I am not my daughters’ friend. I am their mother. [...]

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Please Feel Free to be a Doormat. Just Not In Front of The Children.

July 29, 2010

I get out. I’m not a big fan of naivete. I may be an idealist to a fault, but I’m also realistic… most of the time. Once in a while however, I hear something, read something, see something and I think even if just for a moment ignorance maybe, on this one [...]

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Why It’s Okay to Identify With Saiqa Akhter. And For Your Kids to Know You Do.

July 26, 2010

Last week Saiqa Akhter, an Irving, Texas mother, killed her two young children. Reports contend that after her initial plan to poison them did not work she strangled them with wire and her call to a 911 dispatcher following the acts reveals she was frustrated with the autism that plagued the children.
Since then [...]

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The Case for Screaming Like Hell

March 3, 2010

*Disclaimer: I have not actually watched Keeping Up With The Kardashians. Ever. I have however, been privy to all the hub-bub surrounding the episode in which Kourtney gave birth*
And here’s my beef; while I am absolutely on board with the admonishment of elective cesarean sections and whole-heartedly believe the medical community as a general population [...]

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