I regularly follow a number of blogs and one of them has had a thread recently on “Arguing in front of your children”, a sort of pro or con discussion. When Marcy and I were first discussing getting married, because we had no idea what a loving relationship between the two of us would look [...]
I follow a number of blogs and have been following Lesbian Dad for some time now. I “borrowed” a picture from Baba called “Bee Girl at Rest” and posted it here earlier. I called Baba my friend, although I’ve never met her, but I love her photography and her writing and the following post is [...]
I have frequent reminders of this fact and had one just the other night when I met my friend David and his family for pizza at Comet Ping Pong, just up Connecticut Avenue from where Marcy and I live.
David and I have know each other from way back in the day when he was [...]
Charlie called the other day and asked us to send some family pictures for his apartment and it got me thinking how few we have on this site. Actually, there aren’t any and I want to work on resolving this.
So here is a picture that’s in the boy’s room that I dearly love. At one [...]
So I’m taking the train down to Judiciary Square this morning at Oh-Dark-Thirty to sign in for jury duty and the guy who hands out The Express, which is a free, mini-Washington Post, hands one to me and I discovered an article in the Money Section that I’d like to share with you, Dear Reader.
the thought that stuck with me and that Marcy and I began to discuss afterward was why do we always seem to have such a great urgency to deny our children the things that comfort them when they’re small?
I find so much good photography online and I just loved this shot. I used to go into my son’s rooms at night and watch them sleep. Now I wish I’d taken photos of them at rest, but I did write poems for each of them about my observations when they were sleeping.
This is from [...]
It seems that the act of thumb sucking ignites passionate negative opinions, even though thumb sucking is extremely common and natural. In fact nearly 80% of babies suck their thumbs and have even been observed in ultrasound scans thumb sucking in the womb.
Sucking is a natural reflex for a baby that induces relaxation and calm. [...]
From our friends at momlogic.com … this is a great site!
I was nudging around online and just happened upon this excellent article by Tom Junod from a Nov. 1998 issue of Esquire Magazine here
You have to understand that I’m from Pittsburgh, where Mr. Rogers is a revered institution, and I once had the great good fortune to meet Fred and Joanne Rogers at one of [...]
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