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Journey in Parenting
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Journey in Parenting takes you through just that: the journeys of parenting. Read personal parenting stories from multiple authors, join in conversations about parenting a variety of age groups, or ask questions about parenting. Journey in Parenting blog posts are humorous, educational, and written from first-hand experience.
Recent Posts
How working from home without childcare can work. And not.
Since my daughter was about five months old, I’ve worked from home part-time. It started off with bookkeeping, then a little light business and taxation consulting. By the time she’d had her first birthday, I was writing professionally fo...
Throwing them in to learn to swim: a case against slow-integration
Everything you read in relation to parenting seems to sermonize the following message: ease your kids into any new routine slowly, allow them to learn to cope a baby step at a time, and by all means, don’t just thrust them into a new situation ...
Teaching the Children the “Hard Stuff”
Have you noticed that some things are easier to teach than others? For example, it’s easy to teach a kid good manners – please and thank you, don’t pick your nose, and cover your mouth when you cough. Even when it’s not so simple, like ...
Protect Your Kids: 10 Resources for Hygiene and Health
Between all the hysteria over “swine” flu, or more accurately, the H1N1 Flu, a little thing slipped my mind: all the other viruses swirling around as kids go back to school. My daughter came home with a note that her school, which is qui...
Where do we get our parenting cues?
Before I had my daughter, when I was still in the thick of pregnancy and imagining how blissful parenting might be, I developed a lot of ideals about how I would raise my baby. Most of these ideals, I’m not ashamed to admit came from me seeing ...
Injecting creativity into your kids’ rooms
A few months ago, a friend directed me toward a website that’s become mandatory daily reading. It’s built upon the premise that everyone has at some point had occasion to own a little (or a lot) of furniture from Ikea, and may not want th...

