Parenting a toddler is a multi-year lesson in self-contradiction. After a half hour of imploring your child to please dear…

April 7, 2015

Raising your kids away from family can sometimes be heartbreaking. When you realize your parents won’t see her first steps…

April 6, 2015

Last week, I wrote about how I had decided to stop transporting my toddler around. You know, when she started…

April 1, 2015

Did you grow up with a pet? We had a cat growing up, and I always thought it was important…

April 1, 2015

You know that moment in the Marketplace when you start getting a little light headed and confused? Things are going…

March 30, 2015

Ever since Bean started walking, one of our favorite things to do is go on a toddler-led hike. Toddlers have…

March 26, 2015

Well, this perhaps breaks down better into two parts. 1) Using cloth diapers isn’t really that hard. 2) Using cloth…

March 25, 2015

In part of my parenting quest to focus on calm in order to reduce The Toddler Chaos, I stumbled onto…

March 24, 2015

And now it’s my turn! The week before, I brought you time charts showing how mothers staying at home with…

March 23, 2015

On Monday, I shared a time allocation chart showing how a mother of a 2 month old spends her day. And today,…

March 11, 2015

While sitting in Portland’s Japanese Garden, watching Bean excitedly concentrate on the smooth random path of a swimming orange koi,…

March 10, 2015

I thought it might be interesting to do this report on what stay-at-home parents do all day. The trouble with being…

March 9, 2015

Last week, KQED’s Forum hosted a panel of food allergy academics to discuss a new study that shows giving peanuts to…

March 5, 2015

We got back from Portland yesterday afternoon, and the three of us are completely wiped out. Aside from all the touring…

March 4, 2015

Back when Bean was still a baby, a friend told a group of us that she’d had a conversation with her toddler…

February 25, 2015