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Just Like Pulling Teeth

This week two momentous but unsurprising things happened at our house. My six-year-old lost a baby tooth. And my eleven-and-a-half-month-old drifted peacefully off to sleep without a tear and without nursing.

In other news, a sweet blog reader e-mailed and brought up the issue of sleep training babies. When I wrote back, I mentioned that helping [...]

How Much Does It Cost to Raise a Child from Birth to Age Eighteen? Part 5: Transportation, Health Care, Clothing, and Miscellaneous

This is Part 5 in a series. You can read the earlier posts here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

It’s time to wrap up my epic journey through everyone’s favorite USDA report, Expenditures on Children by Families (the one where the government estimates that the average American family spends $226,920 to raise a [...]

How Much Does It Cost to Raise a Child from Birth to Age Eighteen? Part 4: Food

This is Part 4 in a series. You can read the earlier posts here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

Some of you may have been getting bored hearing about my new favorite number, $226,920, what “it costs” to raise a child from birth to age eighteen. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, read [...]