Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been immersed in Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka. There have been…

April 11, 2017

Race, and race relations, is a topic that can feel inherently complicated and difficult to manage. What is age appropriate? How much…

March 16, 2017

Have any of you heard of “spillover tantrums” before? I just came across the term last week and it was…

March 6, 2017

Parents, I need some advice. How do you talk to and give advice to your kids when their friends turn…

March 2, 2017

There is something deeply deeply fascinating about the way infants and toddlers think. For a long time, they don’t talk,…

August 10, 2016

Have you had any experience with a sudden clumsiness at the three-and-a-half mark? I think we may have just lived…

July 21, 2016

We were hosting my niece and nephew a few weeks ago, when the Orlando mass shooting happened. Dave and I…

July 11, 2016

Well. This has been a kicker of a week. At least it’s the weekend?   From around the web this…

June 24, 2016

Preparing your home to host kids can be dramatically different than preparing your home for a typical, adult guest. Kids…

June 22, 2016

With the recent Stanford rape case bearing heavily on our minds, friends and I have been thinking more about how…

June 9, 2016

A few weeks ago, we had to throw in the progressive parenting towel. We’d reminded, we’d suggested, we’d given the…

May 31, 2016

Last week, walking with a friend, I noted that Bean has hit a cute period.(It’s like Picasso’s blue period, but…

May 2, 2016

  How are your weekends looking? Dave and I will be celebrating our anniversary tonight. On Sunday, we’re headed to…

April 29, 2016

We’ve had a bit of an issue here recently, at Chez Far Out City. There’s nothing like the moment your…

April 26, 2016

  Back when I was pregnant with Bean, Dave and I spent a couple days at Marble Mountain Ranch in…

April 20, 2016