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Remember when phones looked like this? Our kids don't.
Parenting in the digital age has numerous challenges that we anticipate — cyber-bullying and “sexting” to name two — and even more that we don’t anticipate. While my children are not old enough for Facebook profiles or their own phones, I still find that parenting them [...]
Like Kate Middleton on her wedding day, JR does his own makeup.
I have been laid low this week with a summer cold. Henry James once said that “summer afternoon” is the most beautiful phrase in the English language. If that is so, then “summer cold” must be one of the ugliest. The cause of [...]
Thank you to Yahoo! Mail for sponsoring this post about staying connected. I was selected for this sponsorship by the Clever Girls Collective, which endorses Blog With Integrity, as I do.
When I studied abroad in Paris in 1994, I had to write letters home.
Technology and the internet have changed our lives so dramatically in [...]
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So, it’s come to this. The laziest possible kind of post: a list. But actually, everyone loves a list, don’t they? As a kid, I looked forward all year to the Washington Post Style section’s annual In and Out list, which it published on New Year’s Day. These days, I always read [...]
It might be time to talk to these kids about Internet safety.
I had expected that second grade would be a pivotal year for Zuzu. And it has been. She got her ears pierced. She had her first sleep-over at a friend’s house. She saved up her money to buy a very grown-up iPod Touch. [...]
When I was growing up, I loved watching the old Blake Edwards-Peter Sellers “Pink Panther” movies. Do you remember when VCRs were new, in the early 80′s? I think we must have gotten our first VCR around 1983 because I remember recording the Grammy awards that year, when Michael Jackson won everything, including Best Gospel Album, for [...]
In general, I live in fear of the day Zuzu leaves our town’s intimate little public school district and heads off to the enormous public high school that serves Oak Park and River Forest, the aptly named Oak Park River Forest High School. But, the truth is, even though I find the idea of a 3000-person [...]
Today’s post is part of the From Left to Write online book club. The idea of this book club is not to write a book review, per se, but rather to write a post in which the blogger connects that month’s book to an experience from his or her own life. October’s book is The Kids Are All Right, a memoir [...]
For most of my life, I have been too young for the magazines I was reading. Now I am too old. How’s that for a rude awakening?
Like most girls, I started reading Seventeen when I was twelve. By the time I was actually seventeen, I had graduated to Glamour. Yes, admittedly, the articles about how [...]
The Oscars are still going on…and on…and on, but why wait until way past bedtime for my Red Carpet wrap-up? Here is my running diary on what we saw on the way in:
Yessss! I’ve finished the dinner dishes. My kind husband is bathing the children. I finally get to sit down and watch all the [...]
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