Months ago, our son, during a blissful moment of childhood enthusiasm, was dancing around in circles. He had just figured out he could make his little body move around-and-around-and-around–and then he fell. He smacked his face solidly on our new laminate flooring and chipped his front tooth. After a visit to the pediatric dentist, where […]
Natural Parenting
Why Don’t I Fit In?
“Why am I such a misfit? I am not just a nit-wit…” My son wanted to watch Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer today–a whole month after Christmas. As Rudolph and Hermie were waxing prophetic about their misfitedness, I found myself feeling like I needed to escape my own, small, snow-covered town (which is decidedly not snowy and, […]
Getting Out of the Holiday Haze: a Safe Detox
The winter holidays are officially over in my mind, but I thought an after-holiday post might be timely with the arrival of January 6th. When I was growing up, we didn’t take down our Christmas decorations until the celebration of The Three Kings, or The Epiphany, which occurs on that date. Since “epiphany” holds two […]
#Breastfeeding and #NASCAR: Not So Different After All
I’ll put it out there straight: I’m not a NASCAR fan. I will even go so far to say I hate everything surrounding NASCAR: the culture, the petroleum usage, the NOISE. But with millions of fans and billions of dollars in revenue, I am clearly in the minority when it comes to opinions about the, […]
Follow Your Instincts
After reading about the atrocious ads the Milwaukee Department of Health is running (see “Fear Mongering at Its Finest” at Kaia Magazine), my defenses went up about the subject of co-sleeping or bedsharing. In an effort to spread positive messages about co-sleeping, I thought I’d share our story. It’s no secret that I take a […]