Finfare for the Common Tot
by Isabel
By Eden Marriott Kennedy You should have heard my son, Jackson, when he first got his hands on this pop-up book. He opened the first page and shouted, “WOW!” He turned the next page and became thoroughly entranced. “WOW,” he said. I left him in silence at the dining room table to go unload the [...]
Bring On The Meltdown!
by Isabel
By Matthew Baldwin Raising a child, like any noble endeavor, requires sacrifice. In the name of parenthood you’ll be called up to get up at all hours of the night, tighten your purse strings, forego weekend carousing at your local alehouse, and resist the urge to shout cathartic four-letter words when your laptop crashes. But [...]
Dream, Draw and Dress
by Isabel
By Melissa Summers Letting my daughter create her own t-shirt has been a lesson in letting go. When I first opened the package of Peace Monkey’s Do-It-Yourself Tees, I was instantly struck with the kind of crippling anxiety which will only grip an anally-retentive adult when faced with a permanent marker, a t-shirt and an [...]
Alpha Mom’s Favorite Gift for the Holidays: Last Minute Idea
by Isabel
By Heather B. Armstrong of dooce.com When the Buddha Board arrived and I removed the red laptop from its sleek packaging my husband had to pick his jaw up off the floor. “You shouldn’t have!” he said, convinced I had bought him a new computer. “I didn’t!” I shot back, hiding the tablet behind my [...]
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