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Ok, so you warned me. Before Chatterbox started kindergarten, I was put on notice by all of you primary school aficionados that the paperwork and homework involved was no joke. I laughed. I scoffed. I did not take heed. Well. The joke's on me!
Let me introduce you to the Daily Folder. It's ...
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Kindergarten
It is a rare moment in my house when the kitchen counters are completely clear, nary a dirty dish in site, the floors gleaming. And usually if they are, it is due to a heroic attempt on my husband's part over the weekend or an evening when I am out at a volunteer meeting. Oh, I try to get ...
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cooking
This will be my ninth year hosting Thanksgiving for a large crowd. Ninth year. Every year I promise myself I will not stress. I will plan better. I will start earlier. I will, something.....
Ha!
This year we moved, twice , and now my son is having significant problems in ...
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cooking
"He was so good !" praised the woman sitting behind my son during our flight from Reagan National to Detroit Metro as we stood waiting to exit the plane. Usually I'm a descriptive praise sort of gal, taking my cues from Alfie Kohn about avoiding judgment terms like "good" and "bad." But ...
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Breastfeeding
Jessica Alba
Travel
As I write this, my due date looms two days away. It's my second pregnancy, so I know what to expect, more or less. It's just that I totally bought into the "Your second one usually comes early." Heck I even got a gut feeling two weeks ago that he would arrive before his due date. So why did ...
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Pregnancy
Induction
It’s a different world now, from the world I grew up in. There are computers, cell phones and
text messaging. There is Facebook , Twitter and MySpace .
People always wear seatbelts, kids don’t ride in the ‘way back’
of station wagons ...
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technology
Texting
Nicole Richie
Hey, you over there. Yes, you. You know who you are. You and I have run into each other for the last five--hear me, five- -years, and I know my face is familiar to you. Yours is to me. C'mon, how about we just stop for a second and say 'hello'? Find out if our kids will go to the same ...
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Amy Poehler
My ten year-old peers at me from beneath his thick, brown bangs, bites off a whopping hunk of his Sausage McGriddle, and mumbles, "You think dad will ever be normal again?"
"I hope so," I respond, surprised at both the directness of his question and my own stupidity for ordering a sausage, ...
Mommy
One year ago, on Election Day 2008, I quit smoking
cold turkey. Yes, I miss it and yes, I am a few pounds heavier but
every time I am tempted to light up, I remember how cancer killed one of my dearest friends .
I think back to the day I chose to break the nasty habit and I say to myself, ...
Mommy
Motherhood
How is one supposed to parent well while sick? I feel like garbage. My throat is killing me and I barely have a voice. My daughter wants to fight about if it is appropriate to wear a pair of capris to school when it is 40 degrees outside and I just don't have the energy to argue. So I let her ...
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I'm scratching my head over the state of health care, but I'm not talking about insurance exchanges, the Stupak Amendment or the "public option." I'm wondering why we are in a country where you can't get a flu shot, some doctors are holding back Tamiflu and you're treated like a criminal for ...
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Health
Swine Flu
Some time ago, I publicly maligned cartoons in this forum . I sit here today to humbly ask forgiveness of my Technicolor rodent and feline friends. I am sorry. You are not a bad influence on my children. In fact, you and your animated cohorts are making my parenting job easier, in ...
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cartoons
My cable modem quit on a few weeks back. One very long frustrating call to Cox (in which I shouted gibberish to the automated voice in order to finally get a human on the line) secured a date with the repairman for the next day. It would be about 24 hours without the internet. Surely I ...
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Michelle Obama
As a kid, one of
my favorite days was Sunday. On
Sundays my brother and I would wake up at 6 am for a 3 hour Sesame Street
marathon on KQED , our local PBS affiliate. We didn’t watch a lot of TV in our
house but my parents never objected to Sesame Street. Perhaps they ...
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Sesame Street
education
Driving home on a dark and rainy night something zoomed onto the road right in front of my car. There was no way I could safely swerve to avoid it. Braking on the slick road wasn't an option. The other lane wasn't clear either. My heart sank as I heard the small thump and felt the bump under ...
Mommy
Every night it's the same thing. I turn off the light and try to sleep, only to end up tossing and turning for hours before finally drifting off. Several hours later, my body decides to wake up and start the day, only to crash a few hours later. This pattern of sleeping from 2am-5am is not ...
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Insomnia
Pregnancy
When I became a stay at home mom several months ago, I expected that it would be a hard transition. I mean, I already knew my children. And they have never been an easy bunch.
Now you may be thinking that all kids are challenging and that it's hard for all moms, and I would say that you are ...
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About a year and a half ago, a very sweet young couple moved into the house next door to ours. They were newlyweds, full of enthusiasm and excitement over the purchase of their first house. A few months later, they added an adorable yellow lab puppy - Bella - to the mix, to the delight of my ...
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Bella Sara
It's that time of year again, right? The temperatures are steadily cooling down, sidewalks and lawns are awash in crunchy fallen leaves, and each glance out the window confirms the not-so-long ago disappearance of summer. Okay, perhaps I'm a bit late on the realization that summer is now ...
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dcmetromoms.com - 13 days ago
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I grew up in a military family. My
father was a career Air Force officer, as was
his father. My brother joined the Army a few years after high school and served two tours in Bosnia before he got out. Of course then he gave my mother a heart ...
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Explaining the Ft. Hood Tragedy
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