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Parenting

What’s your mothering style?

January 29, 2010

An old friend of mine just sent a link around to this MotherStyles quiz and I found it really interesting. It’s a Myers-Briggs type quiz analyzing your mothering/parenting style.  Turns out I’m an INTP mom, or a “Love of Learning” mom, who excels at calmness, and fostering independence and love of learning, but struggles with routine […]

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My thoughts on being a stay at home mom

August 17, 2009

It seems we all here at Mamas Worldwide needed the summer off!  If you are interested in writing a guest post or possibly becoming a contributor, we welcome your interest, get more details on our contact page.
It’s been a good summer for us.  My son Oliver turned two and we’re still breastfeeding, two topics I want […]

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Book Review – Maybe One

June 3, 2009

Being an only child requires patience. There’s a lot of explaining about not having siblings, and about whether that was “strange” and about how Disneyland might have been more fun with a sibling but if I’d had a sibling my parents couldn’t have afforded to take me to Disneyland. It requires listening to […]

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The SAH vs. working parent debate

May 10, 2009

Happy Mother’s Day!  Today, I’m up early and my guys are sleeping in, but that’s fine with me because I have a little time for myself.
My mother and I butted heads often when I was young, but becoming a mother myself, and moving to another country, just as she did, have really given me a lot […]

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Cultural Differences in Parenting

April 6, 2009

As the mixed race child of an Asian woman who married a caucasian American man and immigrated to the United States, who then herself married a German and moved to Germany (still with me?), I’ve been aware of cultural differences in parenting styles most of my life. I never really stopped to examine what role […]

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Book Review: Punished by Rewards

February 4, 2009

While browsing in a bookstore back in the US last November, I came upon the book Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn.  It sounded pretty interesting so I purchased it and pretty much devoured it.  Before writing a review, I figured I better […]

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Book Review: The Parking Lot Rules

December 30, 2008

I’m not really sure what led me to buy Parking Lot Rules & 75 Other Ideas for Raising Amazing Children.  I guess it was the glowing Editorial Reviews on Amazon.com, as I bought it a couple months ago and as of today, there are only five customer reviews (4 of which gave 5 stars).
When it arrived, […]

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More on attachment parenting

October 24, 2008

I’ve made my guest blogging debut over on the Attachment Parenting International blog, API Speaks, writing about What Presence Means to Me.  A preview:
I can’t count the number of times that someone has told me that I need to get out of the house without my son.  I’ve been told to get a regular babysitter or […]

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Web find: The Imperfect Parent

September 22, 2008

I recently came across a new-to-me parenting website, The Imperfect Parent, and I gotta wonder how I managed to get along without this site for so long.  The contributors and readers accept and even bask in their imperfections, very different to the judgmental parents found at some of those other parenting websites.
What would you do if […]

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Book Review: Parent Effectiveness Training

September 11, 2008

Now that my son is entering his toddler years, I wanted a book to turn to for help with discipline. I read through reviews of dozens of books and settled on three, Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Respon isible Children by Dr. Thomas Gordon was the first I read. The […]

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