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I never planned on being a SAHM. In fact, I already had daycare lined up, a deposit put down, and accepted vet school when I made the decision to be a SAHM; for now anyway. When my older son first started preschool, I immediately investigated being a home-room mother. This was my […]

Recently my daughter’s preschool had a “Fall Festival.” It’s something they do every year in October and this is our first venture to see what it was all about. We arrived late because we opted to make a home cooked meal vs. eating hot dogs and chips at the event - a decision which may […]

How are bullies created? Are parent’s teaching their kids to be bullies? Do they even know their kids bully other children? These are questions that have been occupying my mind recently when I drop my twins at daycare/preschool.
Pack Rat and Copy Cat have never truly been all that found of daycare. Because they were premature […]

Six is a strange age, an age that straddles a line between early and middle childhood. Six can be by turns timid and cuddly, or brashly bold and confident. It’s difficult to predict which Six you’ll get at any given moment. Six is the perfect age for trying on various selves and […]

We’ve spent some time on vacation this summer visiting relatives, and doing group vacation stuff.  Issues have come up from time to time about who pays for what, and it causes some awkward moments, so I thought I’d open this up to the GNM Parents readers to discuss.
In Dan Ariely’s book (and blog) Predictably Irrational, […]

I would have killed for a cup of coffee last weekend. And I almost did.
We moved to a quiet quasi-suburban section of San Francisco a few months ago, forsaking a neighborhood surrounded by probably 20 coffee shops within walking distance to one with exactly zero. So if it’s a desperate Saturday morning and I’m out […]

We just came back from a long weekend away, driving the family minivan. Old Faithful is looking a bit banged up, inside and out, showing some of its 170,000 miles more evidently than in the past. We know we’ll need a new car some day, but in the meantime, we are nursing this […]

There’s been a lot of uproar from a lot of parents concerning the release of the video game Grand Theft Auto. And for the folks who are reading this column who object to sexism and violence prima facie, I’m ok with that. I respect taking a blanket stand on anything that displays sexism or racism […]