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Parenting

Thoughts on Parenting

January 21, 2011

My New Years Res­o­lu­tion this year was to get back to blog­ging, on all my blogs.  So far, this hasn’t worked out great, Leo is crawl­ing and dur­ing the hour nap that he takes in the morn­ing while Oliver is in preschool, I often try to do things like shower, do laun­dry, wash dishes, or […]

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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 […]

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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 peo­ple talk […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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