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I Threaten My Children Too Much
I have to confess that I get nervous about parenting trends. I feel like every couple of decades the pendulum swings and a new way of raising children becomes popular. The problem is that we don’t get any empirical data about the methods that are currently popular until decades later when children become adults. (Case in point: it was fascinating to read the background on Dr. Spock whose parenting philosophy was linked to the rebelliousness/permissiveness/activism of the sixties and seventies.)We are now seeing that the helicopter parenting trend led to a generation of college students who hadn’t developed the resilience they need to navigate the world in an optimal… Read More -
My Health & Wellness Plan
After giving birth to my last child two years ago, I am ready to get my body back on track to support a lifetime of health. I’ve been doing well with my green smoothies for breakfast, salads for dinner, and finally scheduling appointments with a physical therapist to get my back on track.My next goal is to figure out healthier dinners. As a vegetarian, it’s really easy to default to unhealthy foods: pasta, cheese, bread–oh, my! If I were a meat-eater, I would cook grilled chicken and a vegetable almost every night. As a vegetarian, I eat way too many carbs.A quick search led to the concept of… Read More -
Letter to My Body
Dearest Body,
I have much to apologize for, and I hope that you will find it in your heart to forgive me.
I have taken so much from you in the past 4.5 years without giving much in return. Now that I am finally doing some strengthening exercises, I feel that this is exactly what you have needed all along. You needed me to rebuild my core after Henry and then again after Tate. I skipped straight to running (sporadically) instead. The most I did to strengthen my core was get a really good deal on Momma Strong and then proceed to get overwhelmed by the length of the postpartum … Read More
