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It’s time to address this question: What do I think about Attachment Parenting? I’ve been getting asked it a lot especially after I posted about Mayim Bialik’s new book. Answering this question is going to take much more than just one post, so I’m going to split it up into a few posts over the next couple of days. The first thing I want to make clear is that I don’t believe … [Read more...] about What Does the Mommy Psychologist Have to Say About Attachment Parenting?

Have you heard of Elisabeth Badinter yet? If you haven’t, you should be prepared because you will. She’s everywhere stirring up controversy with her bestselling book. It was just released in the United States. Her book is called The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women. The title pretty much says it all. The book came out this week so I haven’t read … [Read more...] about Who is Elisabeth Badinter?

Have you seen the headlines? All those saying that this 6 year old girl in kindergarten threw a tantrum and got arrested? Well, I did. At first when I saw the news, I was appalled and thinking, “WTF? Who puts a 6 year old in handcuffs for a temper tantrum?” But then I read further and did some investigating. The headlines are a bit misleading. Shocking, right? Calling the … [Read more...] about Kindergarten Tantrum Results in Handcuffs

I was raised in a teeny tiny town in Southern Minnesota. My parents lived on a dead end street. At the end of the street was a huge wide open field. Throughout my childhood whenever me or one of my sibling started getting too rowdy in the house my dad was famous for saying, “Go out to the field if you’re gonna wrestle.” And out the door we ran. We spent hours in that field … [Read more...] about Helicopter Parenting Just Isn’t My Style