I have to admit that I’m usually a skeptic about organized events for children. Whether it’s a birthday party, a visit to Santa Claus, or a play date, I feel like a tourist plopped into a foreign country without a travel guide. I was equally skeptical about the Mother’s Day Tea that was organized at […]
Un-Ironic Moments
Compassion in Children
I think what I want most for my children — beyond having their basic needs met — is for them to be compassionate. During the past two weeks, as I’ve started to recover from pneumonia, I’ve witnessed a truckload of compassion from my five-year-old twins. It makes my heart sing. Each of my kids has […]
5 Reasons I Hate Having Pneumonia
Reason 1: I don’t have enough breath to read my kids a story. My breath is coming back, but for 9 nights I couldn’t breathe out the simplest story. I’m not even talking some Dr. Seuss tale that tests the dexterity of the most limber tongue; I’m talking reading stories with the simplicity of Good […]
Living Hypothetically: Mabel’s Labels BlogHer ’10 Contest
I love hypothetical situations: they allow me to proclaim with confidence what I’d do in a given situation when in reality, I haven’t a clue. Take parenting. Before I had kids, I was an expert on motherhood. As a hypothetical parent, I’d observe and critique, vowing that I’d never plop my kids in front of […]