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Pass It On
So your living room now looks like a war-zone: Fisher Price and Mattel battling it out for supremacy in baby’s toy box. New toys lie triumphantly piled on top of old, forgotten, abandoned toys. There’s barely room to walk in the living room, let alone, well, live. At this point, you have a couple of options:
- You can move.
- You can lay down an attractive area rug over all the old gear and pretend it doesn’t exist.
- You can head to the Container Store, buy some storage tubs to pack up the old gear into the basement, and attractively arrange the new toys in an organized and pleasing manner.
- You can pass some things on.
Guest Blog!
We've got a guest appearance today from my girlfriend Abby. Since she's part of my Mommy Focus Group and, let's face it, I quote her all the time in this thing, I think it's only appropriate that from time to time you hear from her directly. Her two children are three years and three months.
Click on this entry and enjoy!
Jennifer
Staying Safe
With the big gift-giving bonanza behind us, chances are you’ve got a lot more baby gear in your house than you did two weeks ago. Hopefully by now, instruction manuals have been read (hah!), appropriate batteries found, and every toy or item of clothing tried out or tried on. Your child now has the must-have item of Christmas 2005 and is happily at work destroying it. You can rest in the knowledge that it’ll take him at least a couple weeks to bring it to a state of dangerously worn out.
What happens, though, if you’ve unknowingly got a defective toy or new stroller? What if you do everything right – supervise the use, read the instructions – but the product itself is inherently bad? How will you find out?
What happens, though, if you’ve unknowingly got a defective toy or new stroller? What if you do everything right – supervise the use, read the instructions – but the product itself is inherently bad? How will you find out?
Real Resolutions
As everyone begins to scramble for that pad of paper, intent on making the noble, self-improving list needed to start your year off right, remind yourself of last year’s list and how long it lasted. What does it say about us, that we constantly feel the need to re-evaluate who we are and how we’re doing and, deciding we’re lacking, come up with some grand and totally unrealistic plan to completely change ourselves, save a ton of money, and save the world all at the same time? Are we really such a disappointment to ourselves?
This year, make a realistic list of resolutions. Give yourself small goals you can actually keep, and make sure they’re not important enough that you hate yourself when you don’t keep them (and you won’t.)
I’ll start.
This year, make a realistic list of resolutions. Give yourself small goals you can actually keep, and make sure they’re not important enough that you hate yourself when you don’t keep them (and you won’t.)
I’ll start.
Dinner and a Show
As a performer earlier in life, I’ve certainly done my fair share of crappy dinner theatre: singing and dancing my way across the stage, taking care not to slip on a stray piece of lettuce – good times. I never thought it would be necessary training for becoming a mommy.
The Great Debate
In doing a casual surf of daddytypes today, I discovered that the New York Times ran an article about the resurgence of co-sleeping. The article declares that Dr. Ferber, long known as the “cry it out” guy, has supposedly reversed himself on co-sleeping, now stating it’s not so bad, and his “conversion” has encouraged parents who have been co-sleeping in secret to come out of the closet, so to speak, and declare the family bed proudly.
As you can imagine, this has sparked quite an internet debate. Parenting-related bloggers everywhere are weighing in (myself included, obviously!) and posted comments to each entry are flying fast and furious.
As you can imagine, this has sparked quite an internet debate. Parenting-related bloggers everywhere are weighing in (myself included, obviously!) and posted comments to each entry are flying fast and furious.
