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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 [...]

The New Mommy's Guide to Managing the House

There have been few things in my life as humbling and horrifying and just plain bewildering as having a new baby and wondering how in the world I was going to cope. Before I had my first, I knew all about how to be a mother. I had been raised on cozy stories of how [...]

Scheduling your Day Without “Scheduling” Your Baby

As I travel around the blogosphere, learning from all the wise and wonderful ladies out there, I keep encountering an idea that I feel needs a little more thinking through. Buried in amongst often excellent advice about mothering and homemaking, homeschooling and organizing is a myth, a logical sounding, but functionally unprovable and sometimes even [...]