Category Archives: parenting

KIOS: Parenting, Part 4: Cosleeping/Sleep-sharing

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Laura

This post is part of my series, “Kickin’ It Old Skool: Why and How We Are Old-Fashioned” or KIOS for short.  If you’re new to the series, please read my disclaimer before continuing on.  I’m keeping a table of contents … Continue reading →

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KIOS: Parenting, Part 3b: Natural/Unmedicated Childbirth (continued)

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Laura

This post is part of my series, “Kickin’ It Old Skool: Why and How We Are Old-Fashioned” or KIOS for short.  If you’re new to the series, please read my disclaimer before continuing on.  I’m keeping a table of contents … Continue reading →

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KIOS: Parenting, Part 3a: Natural/Unmedicated Childbirth

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Laura

This post is part of my series, “Kickin’ It Old Skool: Why and How We Are Old-Fashioned” or KIOS for short.  If you’re new to the series, please read my disclaimer before continuing on.  I’m keeping a table of contents … Continue reading →

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KIOS: Parenting, Part 2: Trusting Our Baby (this time with food)

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Laura

This post is part of my series, “Kickin’ It Old Skool: Why and How We Are Old-Fashioned” or KIOS for short.  If you’re new to the series, please read my disclaimer before continuing on.  I’m keeping a table of contents … Continue reading →

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Sick, Puke, Sick, Laundry

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Laura

Feel free to skip this post if you’d prefer not to read details about sickness or if talking of puking makes you a bit squeamish.  I won’t mind.  In fact, I’ll never know! On Friday, I was sick.  Really sick.  … Continue reading →

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And So It Begins

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Laura

Ellie has certainly started to assert herself and to tell us when she doesn’t approve of what we’re doing.  For example, if I don’t give her something that she wants (because, perhaps, it’s very dangerous), then she marches off, throws … Continue reading →

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The Sins of the Fathers – Revisited with a bit more perspective

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Laura

I have a day more of perspective now on what happened on Sunday, along with the amazingly kind and wise words of my Aunt Zona and my friend Nicole to help me too.  So I just wanted to write a … Continue reading →

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The Sins of the Fathers

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Laura

It’s possible that none of this would have happened if I’d actually remembered that I was supposed to read Scripture in church yesterday.  If I had, I would have read the passage in advance, practiced, looked for the difficult-to-pronounce words … Continue reading →

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We Trust Our Baby and Ourselves

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Laura

I’m joining in with Emerging Mummy’s “Practices of Mothering” carnival today.  She’s inviting people to share “what we do – or try to do – to help us enjoy parenting right now.” Here is what is working for me right now. … Continue reading →

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Project Organize: Day 4 – Ellie’s Books and Toys (continued)

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Laura

Continuing with my organizing theme for the week, today I’ve managed to box up all of our books that we aren’t using right now. That has left a very bare bookshelf. Now I just have to get working on making … Continue reading →

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