Question: My 11-year-old daughter has been friendly with a group of girls in our neighborhood for years. But recently, they seem to be pulling away, leaving her out of get-togethers more often than not. And, quite frankly, their interests seem to be moving away from hers, too. My daughter is …
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Hooray for Moms!
Welcome to the May issue of Baltimore’s Child and, to all the moms out there, happy Mother’s Day! I absolutely love Mother’s Day. Breakfast in bed? Sure thing. A special spa treatment? You bet. Dinner somewhere special, or just prepared by someone else for a change? Of course. Ever since …
Read More »Building in My Son a Strong Sense of Self that has Nothing to Do with Size
Tasked with writing about health and well-being for this month’s column, I wanted nothing more than to avoid talking about my own screwed up relationship with food. But, the truth is, I struggle more with how to parent my kiddo without passing on my disordered eating than almost …
Read More »When Your Kid Gets Cut from the Team…
QUESTION: My son worked out all winter and was even privately coached to prepare for his high school lacrosse team tryouts. He got cut from the team, and is devastated. My message to him of “hard work pays off” hasn’t worked in his favor. What can I tell him now? …
Read More »When an Expensive Family Vacation Isn’t in the Budget
Question: Spring break is fast approaching and my middle-school-aged daughter wants to know why we aren’t going anywhere “cool” over break. She tells me most of her classmates are talking about the tropical getaways their families will be taking. The truth is, expensive vacations are not in our budget. What …
Read More »To March or Not to March
Protests, marches, and demonstrations aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. On a number of issues people are banding together to express their resistance and in some instances outrage or even support for certain issues. Having said that, is it a good idea to bring children along? There were many families with …
Read More »When Birds and Bees Start Buzzing Around
Talking about the “birds and the bees” with our children is tricky, uncomfortable and, in many ways, a parent’s nightmare. But it’s a part of life. We have to do it. My oldest daughter Paige was 8 when we sat down to talk. The girls at school were talking about …
Read More »Teaching Children to Love—Themselves
February’s always been a weird month for me. After the wiz-bang-rush of hurtling through the holidays and the shiny new possibilities of a new calendar year, February feels like a bit of a slog. Yes, there’s the magical excitement of, um, Groundhog Day, but somehow the freezing rain manages to …
Read More »A Hearty ‘Buzz Off’ to the ‘New Year, New You’ Hype
My tree is not yet on the curb and already I’m over it. If Halloween marks the kick-off of insane holiday decor at CVS, Christmas is the unofficial start date of inane self-hatred campaigns, merrily masked in language about getting healthy in the new year. On December 26th every single …
Read More »Last But Not Least
This January there will be no female president moving into the White House, despite the hopes of so many. On election day, I ran into a woman and her young daughter at the polls. The child said, “We voted for the first girl.” Many people, men and women, were hoping that putting Hillary Clinton …
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