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Those with babies might think I’m talking about the midnight feedings, the all-night cry sessions. Nope, I’m talking about my need to stay up way later than I should simply to get in enough “me” time. After dinner, I pretty much disappear. Occasionally, we’ll do something together, but most of the time, we all take…
Dean Dad comments on the IHE article from yesterday about studies showing that academics have fewer kids than other professionals. Dean Dad asks specifically how we make this work. Honestly, it’s gotten easier as the kids have gotten older, but it’s still hard. I especially feel guilty that I can’t be here when my kids…
Via 11D and Bitch, Ph.D., other erstwhile “mommy” bloggers, I learned that Dooce apparently let one fly last week. She criticized the critics of mommy blogging, those who say it’s egotistical and that the kids are going to resent the moms for doing it. For me, this was the money quote: This is the glorification…
Valerie’s comment below got me to thinking even more, especially about this little tidbit: Among other things, this means that if you are a two-earner couple, if you are going to get the kid-rearing job done adequately, at least one parent needs to have a job with some serious flexibility. She goes on to explain…
I have been thinking about writing this for a couple of days. And then I ran into Aspazia’s post commenting on the Dear Cary letter from Salon about mom identity crisis. Let’s just say I can relate. Those of you who have met me personally or who are long time readers will know that I’ve…
Last night, I watched Frontline’s Growing Up Online. It made some attempt to be balanced by having researchers make some positive comments about the Internet, but it only showed negative examples–a boy who commits suicide, a girl who finds forums for anorexics, another who posts risque pictures of herself, etc. I had to pause the…
Geeky Boy is 12, decidedly not a kid anymore, decidedly not an adult yet, and definitely in the middle of some kind of transition. Before I gave birth to him, I bought every book on the planet about pregnancy, birth, and child rearing. Once I got past the the toddler stage, I quit buying books.…
For the last week and a half, I’ve been single parenting. Mr. Geeky was first in VA, returned, next day went to Seattle, returned, next day went to Buffalo and has now returned. During this time, Geeky Boy was grounded from video games, so had to find other ways to entertain himself. (For the record,…
The first day of school begins for child # 1 in about an hour and for the youngest, two hours. We are actually semi-organized this year. Yesterday, we went to purchase all the school supplies and the kids cleaned out their backpacks–from last year!–and reloaded them with new stuff. The three of us all thought…
My oldest child, Geeky Boy, is a great kid. He’s kind and funny and smart. He seems to be well-liked by his peers. But he’s not perfect, of course. Sometimes, because he is such a good kid, we have really high expectations and we’re hard on him. We have higher expectations of him sometimes than…
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