Today I am very proud of my daughter, my stalwart, curious, and unassailable girl. She went to the dentist for the first time today and she was so relaxed about the poking and prodding and scraping and scratching and flossing and polishing and picking and suctioning that you’d think she was a professional dental patient….
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Little Boys and Girls, Part One
We try, well, not hard, to be pretty gender-neutral when it comes to the kids. We don’t ignore the fact that the kids are biologically different, but we at least keep the culturally-gendered pseudo-differences in suspicious view, and knowing is half the battle. (Go Joe!) I introduced both Erin and Adrian to hockey early on,…
Babyproofing for your Crawling Child
Recently, Parents magazine ran a piece by Linda DiProperzio called “Babyproofing for your Crawling Child.” It’s most likely about child safety, because babies like to drop things that are sharp or heavy on things that are not. But for all I know it’s a total mislead of a title and the piece is really about…