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Why I Vacuum
Some days suck. Like yesterday for instance. My toddler immersed our cordless phone in water, swallowed a marble and caught the cat’s tail in the fridge. My five-year-old rejected her pancakes as too...
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Mom of Courage
I am the African-American adoptive mom of two sons—one Caucasian and the other African American. I am trying to raise them equally in a world full of inequality. As a foster mother for years, I’ve...
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Now It’s Daddy Time
Gwen has gone back to work part-time after six years at home with our boys. Noah, age six, couldn’t be happier with the extra Daddy-time, but for Benji, age two, it’s an adjustment. This past Sunday...
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I Yell: I Roar at Him
I roar at him in the dog voice. It comes from deep within; from way down low in the belly as if coming from another being, another species even. Immediately I am sorry and I look down at his little...
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Moms Tired and Happy?
If there is a mother on the planet who hasn’t felt slammed by fatigue, I haven’t met her. And if a mother says she hasn’t ever been tired, she’s clearly an alien or been drinking society’s Kool-Aid—you...
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The Healthy Family
That love is the foundation of healthy families is no secret. Of course we love our children, but love is more than a feeling—it is a commitment, an action. It is the successful translation of love...
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My Osteopathic Shaman
Noah is one year old. He enjoys torturing Gwen and me by climbing onto the headrest of the couch and walking back and forth like a tightrope walker. One evening, midtightrope, he took a misstep and...
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Attachment Parenting
Here is a talk I was to give at the Attachment Parenting, International’s recent conference at Notre Dame. The shutdown of flights out of Chicago that weekend made it impossible for me to attend so I...
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Motherhood Saved My Life
Since I was 12, I’ve struggled with an eating disorder. I don’t really remember a time when thoughts of food and my body image didn’t occupy my mind. The history of my eating disorder is...
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Your Community of Mothers
From time to time a weary mother plops down on the couch in my office looking like something the cat dragged in. I soon discover that she has been running on fumes. She sleeps five hours a night if...
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