After an extremely hard week at work and especially vigorous parenting challenges, we are relieved to see Saturday night on the horizon. And so after little or no rest when…
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The Election And Our Kids: How Can We Help Them?
by Ami November 11, 2016Wednesday morning I felt a deep gloom settle in my heart when I knelt down in front of my son and gave him the results of the election. He’s only…
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Books & BanterGuest PostsParenting and Kids
Best Diwali Children’s Books To Enjoy This Year!
by Ami October 7, 2016The regrettable truth is that Diwali didn’t hold nearly as much meaning for me during my childhood as it does now. In fact none of the Hindu holidays did, mainly…
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Are you living your Best life?
Really, are you?
Doing all you can
And all you should?…
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Move over Pokemon Go, we’ve got a new game in town! It so happens that I quit my job so I could kill fruit flies. Here is what I’ve been…
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For a lot of us parents here in Austin, it is the First day of Kindergarten! I remember expansive grounds and what seemed then like an enormous building dwarfing my 3…
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Let’s be honest, this thought has crossed all of our minds at least once during this election. Can we truly trust a woman to run this country? We are expected…
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To be honest I don’t know too much about the “Mommy Wars,” at least not in the context of the sociocultural phenomenon. What I do know is…
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I’ve been both stay at home and not stay at home mom. The ‘working’ never stopped. And neither situation, in my opinion, is as rosy or as fraught with negative…
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Summer is in full swing, as are, I imagine, parents’ anxieties about children losing their academic progress in the face of family vacations, late-night sleepovers, and endless…