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The Mommy Sense of Hearing

As I help my preschool daughter put on her dress, I hear a loud crash in the dining room where my toddler is coloring. Instantly, I can identify the most probable source of the noise. After a few years of mom-hood, you learn to distinguish various noises to figure out what is going on. I swear that I can even hear it when someone drops a single moist macaroni on the floor. You can hear the scratch scratch of scribbling on the wall and tell whether it is coming from a pencil (not the end of the world, I’ll get … Continue reading →

Baby’s 5 Senses and How They Develop over the First Year

Have you seen the commercial on PBS aimed at educating parents and I assume encouraging parents to be more patient with their baby’s messes. It says, “Babies are natural born explorers. They have to try things over and over and over again.” You see the baby spilling the cereal on the floor as they point out that it’s a baby’s nature to do so. It’s true, as anyone with babies or toddlers can tell you–babies learn by exploring. Lacking the adult means of communicating information, these little people use their senses to learn about the world around them. Take a … Continue reading →

Baby’s 5 Senses and How They Develop over the First Year

Have you seen the commercial on PBS aimed at educating parents and, I assume, encouraging parents to be more patient with their baby’s messes? It says, “Babies are natural born explorers. They have to try things over and over and over again.” You see the baby spilling the cereal on the floor as they point out that it’s a baby’s nature to do so. It’s true, as anyone with babies or toddlers can tell you: babies learn by exploring. Lacking the adult means of communicating information, these little people use their senses to learn about the world around them. Take … Continue reading →

The Importance of Listening

How could I possibly resist listening to this adorable angel? My daughter’s smile can light up a room, but her insanely long recaps of lunchroom drama between five girls, a shoe, a note and some other item that I have no earthly idea about, are far from illuminating. In fact, her convoluted conspectuses often make my ears burn, though the pain could actually be my brain frying, as I try to decipher what green socks and Eggplant Parmesan  have to do with how she fared on Friday’s spelling test. I try to make sense of it all, but I’m old. … Continue reading →

Another Reason to Hug Your Baby

“Give me a hug, slug!” Five little words that mean so much. My 6-year-old daughter knows there is nothing in the world that makes her mommy smile faster, brighter and longer than hearing her utter the words: “Give me a hug, slug!” I don’t know exactly how or when she came up with the phrase, but I know I will never forget it for as long as I live. Hugging is commonplace around here. We’re huggers. Serious huggers. And proud of it. In fact, there is little that a hug doesn’t make better in our family. Hurt feelings. Hug. Bad … Continue reading →

Home Month in Review: September 2008

Has the weather turned cooler now that September has passed? Pretty soon, it will be time to get that heat turned back on! Meanwhile, check out all of the articles that were posted last month. September 1st Home Week in Review: August 25th Through August 31st As we all watch the raging path of the hurricane, we are praying for the safety of those affected. It seems like there have been so much weather phenomena making an impact recently. And, now one authority is predicting that this winter will see extreme cold. If you missed that post this week or … Continue reading →

Home Week in Review: September 15th Through September 28th

Here is the Home Blog two weeks in review for September 15th through September 28th. September 15th Home Week in Review: September 8th Through September 14th Have you been more conscious about going green? From sheets to rainwater, there are so many ways to help the planet. Take a look at some of the articles that were posted last week. September 17th The Mommy Sense of Hearing As I help my preschool daughter put on her dress, I hear a loud crash in the dining room where my toddler is coloring. Instantly, I can identify the most probable source of … Continue reading →

Having the Hang Out Home

The other day, a parent of one of the neighborhood kids came by looking for his four-year-old son. They had an errand to run and he needed to collect the little boy. “It looks like you have the hang out house!” he said. Having the hang out house can be a mixed blessing. On the positive side I always know where my kids are. They are right at my home or in my yard, so I know that they are safe, and I never have to go looking for them. I can hear and usually see what is going on. … Continue reading →

The Many Languages of Mother

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In my last blog, I mentioned conversations that have been flying around the blogosphere this spring. I suppose it’s not surprising that in May our thoughts turn to mothers. A heated conversation has arisen among the international adoption community over referring to yourself as “mother” in the language of the child’s birth country. Adoption catalogs carry catalogs with jewelry, shirts, tote bags, etc. which have the word Mother, and sometimes Father or Grandmother or Grandfather, in the languages of the various countries which send the most adoptees to the U.S. Since my daughters are Korean, I’ll use the Korean word … Continue reading →

Forty Reasons to Have Children

A French woman by the name of Corinne Maier has recently published a book in which she lists forty reasons why no one should ever have children. A mother of two herself, she says that she really regrets having children, and resents how she became a traveling baby bottle, how she lost her friends, and how the pain of childbirth is torture. She is a strong advocate for women to remove themselves from the traditional “soccer mom” role (yes, there is an equivalent to this expression in French) and to think of themselves, their figures, and their romantic lives first. … Continue reading →