I knew it was coming. My boyfriend, Tim, and I have been dating for over a year. Both of us have two kids each – his are ages 6 and 8, and mine are 10 and 13. We began the process of “blending” our families at Christmastime last year and things have gone as […]
Is Halloween as we knew it, dead?
I remember the roaming, the aimless innocent cavorting with packs of friends, like costumed strays around our neighborhood. Halloween was the one night of the year our parents let us OUT, like really out, on our own. Growing up in the seventies and the eighties Halloween night meant one thing–independence. The candy was good. Just […]
Compassion is the only answer
On the morning of March 23 the parents of Yorba Linda teenager Logan Wells woke to the news that a car had hit their son. He later died at the hospital at 9:37 a.m. Logan was hit at 4 a.m. by a van as he rode his skateboard in the street. He wasn’t wearing a […]
Friday Five: Okay, top 10 parenting movie scenes
I love to quote movie lines. This was a habit handed down from my dad and now I do it to my kids. Growing up it wasn’t uncommon for me and my brothers to quote movie line after movie line without ever speaking an original word to each other all day. Watching movies has always […]
Abercrombie & Fitch sells ‘push-up bras’ made for eight-year-olds
One of America's largest retailers, Abercrombie & Fitch, has always lived on the seductive edge. Their titillating photos of tanned bare-chested hunks would cause even the most sexually sober person to stir…down there. And on the the merchandise side, tiny tanks and micro daisy dukes abound in their dark, moody, perfumed-soaked stores. I'm cool with […]
The Post-Halloween Ritual
The morning after Halloween is in some ways just as fun as the actual night. It’s the time honored tradition of tallying up the goods and assimilating them in some sort of calculated way into our lives. The process looks something like this: THE DUMPING: This is the most exhilarating part of the process. . […]
“Wow, sign me up for that!” and other sarcastic remarks Ma could have made
Emily loves the “Little House on the Prairie,” books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. They are the intermediate reader versions, which are abbreviated with big colorful illustrations and simple text. Every time I come across this page in the first book called “Going West,” I laugh to myself. This is where Pa TELLS Ma they are […]
Mom, you can let go now
This was a big summer for Emily, my nine-year old daughter. There were a lot of firsts, but the biggest first by far is letting her go with her brother outside to play by themselves. This is the kind of thing that if you were to go back in a time machine to the […]
Put down the Purell and go see the movie ‘Babies’
Babies are resilient. Babies are tough. Babies have a wicked sense of humor. Babies can spend the first year of their life licking dirt, spending time unsupervised, and cuddling with cows and still enter into the toddler stage healthy and happy. These are all things I learned after watching the brilliant documentary “Babies.” […]
Keeping it in Perspective
Here’s my post featured in this month’s issue of OC Family Magazine: There are a few sure signs that you have entered the land of grown-ups– paying taxes; treating your parents’ to an expensive, swanky dinner; or even listening to Neil Diamond without shame. But, you know what really makes you feel […]
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