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Dear Parents: Hang Up and Hit Your Kids
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Dear Parents: Hang Up and Hit Your Kids

by × on August 21, 2015 at 9:21 AM × 4 comments

Cholet Don’t let your kids turn out like Donald Trump.

Meditating with Monks
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Meditating with Monks

by × on August 17, 2015 at 7:30 AM × 0 comments

best place to buy accutane online uk “The who are doing what?” “The monks are making a mandala!” I didn’t know how it would go over. I couldn’t wait to see them myself, Tibetan Buddhist monks creating a sacred cosmogram from colored sand for hours at a time. They’re on tour for a year, and they’re here […]

Beyond Talk: Helping Kids Deal with Divorce
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Beyond Talk: Helping Kids Deal with Divorce

by × on July 31, 2015 at 8:15 AM × 3 comments

“It’s not your fault” and “We will always take care of you”—those phrases don’t have the leverage necessary to lift that weight.

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The Boy Scouts: Honor, Credo, or Oxymoron

by × on July 15, 2015 at 12:56 PM × 1 comment

The Boys Scouts of America flagrantly recruits hairless, prepubescent males into their uniform-wearing, male-bonding, rubbing-two-sticks-together-in-the-woods lifestyle.

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Confessions of a Mother on the Other Side

by × on July 2, 2015 at 8:23 AM × 12 comments

I need to tell you something that may confuse, might offend, and could easily lead you to judge me harshly. But, I want to explain something to you from the perspective of a parent with older kids.

When Neighbors Aren’t Neighborly
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When Neighbors Aren’t Neighborly

by × on June 24, 2015 at 7:00 AM × 1 comment

What do you do when your neighbors stop talking to you?

Sex Talk: The Awkwardness of the Mother Is Visited Upon her Sons
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Sex Talk: The Awkwardness of the Mother Is Visited Upon her Sons

by × on June 18, 2015 at 7:30 AM × 0 comments

I asked my kids, in the context of a conversation about song lyrics, what they think “sexy” means, and both my sons made it abundantly clear that they are suddenly totally disgusted by any talk about sex, bodies, or puberty.

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All Kinds of Changes that Come with a Second Child

by × on June 12, 2015 at 10:56 AM × 2 comments

We have been slowly acclimating to the new “normal” over here at the FaB house with the arrival of kid number two. It’s been seven weeks, which feels like both forever and the blink of an eye. So what really changed when we had a second kid? 1. Sleep, and lack thereof […]

The Last Days of the First Months
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The Last Days of the First Months

by × on June 11, 2015 at 7:30 AM × 1 comment

Each day for the past four months my morning routine has been the same: drop off my oldest son at his bus stop, drop off my husband at his office, and then before going into work take my younger son to the coffee shop around the corner and pass the […]

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Two Boys Kissing is So Gay

by × on June 4, 2015 at 8:16 AM × 0 comments

(Boy + Boy) x Kissing = Funny. The lazy math of straight comedy writers. The joke being on us.

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