A decade or so ago, Facebook came online and forever changed the way users share personal information with friends and family members. Suddenly, the opportunity to reveal the “best of” one’s self and kin exploded, from once-a-year holiday cards to instantaneous image-sharing, 365 days a year. Now, every time Facebook …
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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 …
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As we round the bend into a new school year, my kiddo is 2 years and some change old. Twenty-seven months post-delivery, it’s just now starting to feel like my son has been around for longer than I was pregnant. I felt like those 40 weeks took about 2 years …
Read More »Type B(More) Parenting An introduction
I’d been at the helm of the Downtown Baltimore Family Alliance as executive director for just under a year when the editor of Baltimore’s Child approached me about taking over this column. My first thought: Squeeee!!! My second thought: Uh-oh. I should probably tell them my parenting philosophy basically boils …
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