Mountain or Molehill?
I went to Tarjay recently and bought my daughter some sippy cups. I needed new ones because although she loves the kind with the straws, she has chewed said straws down to the nub. So I decided to...
View ArticleToys I Apparently Should Never Have Gotten Rid Of
Care Bears, selling for $1200 Pound Puppy, selling for $5000 Furby, going for $500 Cabbage Patch Kid, yours for $2000 Stretch Armstrong figures (God, who didn’t have at least one of these and beat the...
View ArticleThe Time I Fought the School District. And Won.
I’ve been meaning to tell this story for a while, but I’ve been so buried under stuff that my mind has been unable thus far to tell the tale in a fairly truncated manner. Because man, the whole thing...
View ArticleMonday Teeny Poll
Aaaah, ladies after my own heart! 57% of you never pay retail if you can possibly help it, and 28% say more than they would like, which could be that they don’t pay retail 8% of the time, but that’s...
View ArticleThe Child Care Dilemma
As some of you may have read, the annual cost of child care in some states exceeds that of tuition for a four year degree. Let’s think about that for a second. I am all for paying childcare workers a...
View ArticleOh God, It’s Halloween Costume Time Again
Is your tween girl hankering to dress like a literary character? Well, she’d better be prepared to slut it up as Hermione Granger, because tight, short, and shiny is most of what is out there on the...
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52% of you have no issues with infant male circumcision, and the recent just-short-of-a-recommendation from the AAP didn’t change that. 4% admit the new findings may have changed their mind, while...
View ArticleMonday Teeny Poll
78% of you felt that a college professor who breastfed her child during a lecture acted inappropriately. Some of you also disagreed with a sick child being brought to the workplace. You know, I sort...
View ArticleThe Perfect Party for a Three Year Old
My husband and I have been mulling over party ideas for our three year old daughter. She was born after Halloween, but very soon after, so we thought about a Halloween-themed party. Or we thought...
View ArticleYou Still Have Time to Vote!
For 2012′s worst “Toys Oppressive And Destructive to Young Children.” Wow. Destructive is such a strong word, as is oppressive. What are some of these dastardly things? Hmmm, you’ll find a Lego...
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