With Dr Ferber, Weisbluth and all the doctors who have written books telling parents all about the importance of independent sleeping, your grandma, your mom, and the enormous variety of cribs and mobiles and crib bedding sets available in retails stores across the nation, you could be forgiven for thinking that every baby in the [...]
Tags: Breastfeeding, co-sleeping, Families, Parenting, playdates
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I am in continual wonder of the subculture I entered when I decided to stay home with my babies instead of heading back to work. Stay at home moms are a hearty breed of women, but it can be an awfully lonely occupation. Sometimes there are days when I don’t get to talk [...]
Tags: playdates, sahd, SAHM, socialization, stay at home dad, stay-at-home mom
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I once read a great article that discussed the cliques that form with playgroups. The article compared this to the same phenomenon in high school where certain leaders arise, some people just kind of follow along, and there are some people who simply don’t fit in. I’ve attended more than a few playgroups [...]
Tags: making friends, playdates, social gathering
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What do you think about this cocktail? Moms, babies, toys, and glasses of chardonnay?
A growing fashion is for moms to be opening a bottle of wine at afternoon playdates. Have a look at this NBC story on the trend.
I used to belong to a moms group in California (where else?) who met once a month [...]
Tags: alcohol, playdates, wine
Posted in: Parenting
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