by Stacey
Next weekend I am going to spend a night in a secluded cabin with a hot tub and no cell phone reception - not with my husband as you might imagine - but with the mothers in my children’s weekly playgroup.
I’m looking forward to the time we will have together to have uninterrupted conversations […]

by Stacey
Sorry I went missing last week, but when you hear about the week I had you’ll understand.
Last week actually started three weeks ago when the woman we’d hired to watch our kids while I was at work sent me an email saying she was skipping town in the middle of August. Her marriage had […]

Cross-posted at MotherTalkers
by Stacey
A new study in the Journal of Family Psychology shows that it isn’t just babies that moms have to nurture. According to this article in Science Daily, researchers at Ohio State University found that fathers were more involved in the day-to-day care of their infants when they received active encouragement from their […]

by Stacey
Here’s one thing we learned from the Dalai Lama’s visit last week to Seattle. Enlightened people do not glare at parents whose children are being fussy on airplanes. Enlightened people sympathize with such parents and offer respect and admiration.
According to this article in the Seattle Times, the Dalai Lama flew from Tokyo to […]

by Stacey
No one’s kid is perfect. Most of us struggle at some point in the day with our kids’ behavior, at times skillfully getting them to do what we want and other times using threats and bludgeons (okay not really). But some parents struggle more than others. This article in the Washington Post looks at […]

by Stacey
All’s fair on reality television. People swap spouses, get new and improved homes to live in, and compete for titles like “Top Chef!” And now, according to this article in Newsweek, stay-at-home mothers can try out going back to work while the whole nation watches. The show is called “Secret Life of a Soccer […]

Cross-posted at MotherTalkers
by Stacey
Here’s some crazy crap for you: According to a new documentary film making its way through politically conservative circles, there’s an ominous decline in childbirth rates around the world such that if we all don’t start procreating fast, armageddon is surely afoot. The movie is called “Demographic Winter: Decline of the Human […]

by Stacey
It’s been two weeks since Heath Ledger’s body was found in his Manhattan apartment and it seems that the cause of death was accidental overdose. According to this article in Newsweek, the 28-year-old Australian-born actor and star of “Brokeback Mountain” died from a lethal combination of prescription medications used to treat anxiety, insomnia […]

by Stacey
Sorry Sascha. Sometimes it can seem like living with a toddler is like living with a wild animal. Unwanted food gets thrown on the floor, magazines you haven’t read yet get ripped to shreds, puzzle pieces get hurled across the room. But according to this article in the NY Times, one of the nation’s […]

by Stacey
I’m not sure why it is that winter is the season for sickness among the five and under crowd, but so far this month my family has fallen ill with a noxious stomach flu and a fevery head cold. All of us have had these charming maladies (except my husband who during the stomach […]