Is Cheerleading a Sport?
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Family on Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Last week’s raging conversation on the debate over the youth beauty pageant circuit prompted one parent to write me about a new topic: cheerleading. Like the pageant family, this family has a young daughter and is divided over the idea of permitting a young girl (aged under ten) to be enrolled in competitive cheerleading.
I would imagine that some of my same thoughts from last week hold true—the idea... READ MORE
Are Tiny Pageant Queens Too Young to Dream?
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Family on Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Last week, I had an interesting email from a concerned parent who is having a disagreement with their spouse over the participation of their child in the childhood pageant circuit. In hopes of protecting the family’s identity, I don’t want to go into any of the details on who’s in favor of turning the kiddo into a queen—suffice it to say that one parents ardently supports the plan and the other adamantly... READ MORE
Breast Milk Baby?
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Family on Tuesday, August 02, 2011
I first saw the news this weekend on CNN, a small piece about “Breast Milk Baby”, a toy doll designed to simulate and promote breastfeeding. It cropped up again today in an email from my sister about an article at the Chicago Tribune where “Baby” gets a little snarkier treatment.
Here’s the basic blueprint of this $89 baby doll:
“The Breast Milk Baby simulates the breast-feeding process by including... READ MORE
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Today I was out running errands with baby Isabel. As we ambled through the aisles at Target, Isabel snuggled against my chest in her baby carrier, I noticed a young couple at the other end of the aisle. They looked really young (mid-teens) but as it was a weekday morning, I assumed they were a bit older than they seemed.
At some point, before I moved on from throw pillows to plasticware, the couple... READ MORE
Little Girl Love
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Friday, August 27, 2010
This week I had an awesome privilege: the chance to be present at the birth of my very first niece.
Only one of my siblings is married, and Bryan’s an only child, so my sister’s kids are (so far) my sole chance at aunt-hood. She has two boys already and I’d have loved another one just as much, but I am thrilled that Branwen had a girl instead.
(I’m already plotting matching Christmas dresses for our... READ MORE
Pretty… Boys?
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Thursday, July 29, 2010
A college friend of mine came from a family of six girls followed by two boys.
She told me a story of a time her father came home and his son tripped into the room to meet him. He’d been playing dress-up with his sisters, and he was decked out in a skirt, heels, and jewelry: the whole dress-up package.
Apparently this kind of dress-up was a common occurrence in their home (with six girls, of course... READ MORE
No One Beat Me Up
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Thursday, July 22, 2010
“If I had to use two words to describe my childhood,” my sister said the other day, “they would be: pink belly.”
I was unloading the dishwasher and almost dropped a handful of forks. What?!? Pink belly? What was she talking about?
Apparently, “pink belly” is a game wherein the perpetrators hold down the victim and smack him on the belly until it turns pink.
I am the oldest of six children, and Tirienne... READ MORE
Sweet and Sour Siblings
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Tuesday, June 01, 2010
I’m all about making lemonade, but the thing is: lemons aren’t enough. You’ve got to have sugar too.
Both my kids have been on a major Mama kick lately. My daughter turns “I-want-MA-ma!” into a whine that sounds like one four-syllable word. My son babbles it almost without ceasing, “Mamamamamamama…” They both want me to hold them, feed them, cuddle them, and read to them, every waking hour of the... READ MORE
Any Decent Books for Teen Girls?
Posted by Danielle Bean in Reviews on Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Yesterday, my 15-year-old daughter Kateri announced to me that she had “read out” our local library. Anything more she chooses to read, she explained, will have to come from inter-library loan.
I believe her—this happens to be the second local library she has read out. She really enjoys reading and our libraries are smallish.
Inter-library loan is do-able, but will require more planning ahead than... READ MORE
Princess Balducci Update
Posted by Danielle Bean in News on Thursday, April 08, 2010
Isabel Annemarie Balducci was born at 10:00 pm last night, April 7, 2010.
Mother, father, brothers (and the entire internet) are on cloud nine.
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