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Book Review: Little Earthquakes

June 27, 2009

I’m not really a chick-lit fan, but when this book came up on offer in our read­ing group, some­thing about it clicked with me and I decided to give it a try.  Lit­tle Earth­quakes by Jen­nifer Weiner is about four new moms adjust­ing to life with new­borns. I loved that the moms were ded­i­cated to […]

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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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Embracing your new body shape

May 28, 2009

I’m not sure if it was preg­nancy, or aging, or prob­a­bly both, but over the last 3 years, my body has changed.  I’ve got chicken wings, my boobs have gone down a size, and while I’m now slightly smaller than I was pre-pregnancy, my waist is still 2 inches larger than it used to be.  […]

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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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Breastfeeding After Reduction Surgery - 19 months and counting

February 27, 2009

I wrote before about my breast reduc­tion and the first year of breast­feed­ing my son, now I thought I’d give you an update on how it’s going.  I’d planned to do an 18 months and count­ing update, but life got in the way, and here we are at 19 months and still going strong in […]

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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 No-Cry Nap Solution

January 18, 2009

I’m a fan of Eliz­a­beth Pant­ley and her No-Cry series of books.  Her book, The No-Cry Sleep Solu­tion: Gen­tle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night, helped give me the courage to lis­ten to my heart.  So many peo­ple would ask me if Oliver was sleep­ing through the night, that I started worrying […]

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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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Moomintroll books by Tove Jansson

November 19, 2008

Tove Jans­son was the author of the Finnish Moomin series of children’s books that include her beau­ti­ful, unique illus­tra­tions.  The books were orig­i­nally writ­ten in Swedish, as she was part of the minor­ity of Swedish-descended Finns.  She pub­lished the first Moomins book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, in 1945 dur­ing WWII.  Despite their age, […]

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Books for kids: the Maisy series

September 26, 2008

I’m not sure how we dis­cov­ered the Maisy books by Lucy Cousins, I was prob­a­bly just brows­ing Amazon.co.uk, but some­how I ran across the Maisy mouse series of books and ordered one.  Oliver just loves them.  The lift-the-flap books are made of seem­ingly very light­weight card­board, but are sturdy enough to han­dle tod­dler abuse without […]

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