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The First Day in the Classroom, Post-Sandy

Returning to school in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, my students didn't need my lessons. Not right away. Instead they needed school as a refuge. Read More...

Published Sun, Nov 04 2012 2:00 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Education (K-12), Emotions, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Weather, Power Outages and Blackouts, Teachers and School Employees, Fear (Emotion)

Talking to Other Parents About Guns

There are no guns in this house. There, I said it, and now you know - but how do I ask others the question I just answered? Read More...

Published Wed, Jan 02 2013 9:18 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, _featured, School Shootings, Children and Childhood, Newtown, Conn, Shooting (2012), Gun Control

Varied Snacks Nudge Children Toward Healthier Eating

Children given cheese and vegetables for a snack consume far fewer calories than those offered chips. Read More...

Published Tue, Dec 18 2012 9:10 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Obesity, Snack Foods, Cornell University, Wansink, Brian

A Father's Role?

A father struggles to define his role after having a daughter with woman who no longer wants his presence in their lives. Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 16 2010 2:45 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, paternity, Dads, Fathers Day

Help — My Daughter Wants to Make Movies

Struggling with encouraging creative aspirations in a world that offers a better living to more practical pursuits. Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 30 2012 12:58 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized

'Do You Want to Be Careful, or Do You Want to Be Friends?'

Lessons in friendship, lessons in sympathetic-but-firm parenting - which is your favorite Frances book, and what did Frances teach you? Read More...

Published Mon, Oct 29 2012 11:05 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Children and Childhood, Books and Literature, Friendship, Hoban, Russell

A Stepmother, Losing Her Marbles

What no one tells you when you become the new woman in an already intact family is that your needs and routines, sexual and otherwise, come last. Read More...

Published Sun, Dec 20 2015 3:25 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Divorce, Separations and Annulments, Marriages, Highlights

Four-Plus Things to Read Before Your Next Vacation

Prevent vacation sabotage, meditate on "busyness," consider your companions and take better pictures. Read More...

Published Wed, Jul 04 2012 3:34 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, vacation

Recipes for Kids: Congee

Congee is a thick Chinese soup made with rice, which sort of explodes as it cooks. Read More...

Published Wed, Apr 09 2014 11:49 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Cooking and Cookbooks, Highlights, ChopChop Cooking

The Gay Mormon Known Sperm Donor From Utah

My friends used to offer up my status as a gay former Mormon as an icebreaker. Now, they’re helpfully tossing my role as “known sperm donor” out at dinner parties. Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 15 2014 9:45 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Artificial Insemination, Highlights, Sperm, Homosexuality and Bisexuality, Mormons (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)

Reaching Out to Include the Special Needs Child

Is there a gulf between other parents' intent to include a special needs child and the moments when they actually do so? Read More...

Published Thu, Aug 02 2012 11:02 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Special-needs, parental quandary, birthday

Playgrounds for Kids Who Can’t Run and Jump

Knowing how many ordinary pleasures were cut off from my daughter, I was angry when something as common as swinging through the air on a hot summer day was also unreachable because of broken or missing equipment. Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 17 2014 11:30 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Disabilities, Playgrounds, Americans with Disabilities Act, Highlights

Sacrificing the Presidency for Family?

Is it "abandonment" when a parent moves half way across the country after a divorce? Is it somehow worse when the mother is the one who leaves? Read More...

Published Mon, May 23 2011 3:23 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, divorce, Politics, abandonment

Explaining the Rapture to Kids

Advertising hellfires on Justin Bieber videos. Read More...

Published Fri, May 20 2011 11:21 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Religion

‘Where Are You Delivering?’ Omaha.

We are traveling – by car, as a family – 1,200 miles so that I can give birth in Omaha, which is where I am from. The waiting lists to be a part of midwifery practices on the East Coast and the overbooked schedules of its clinicians wore me down. Read...

Published Tue, Oct 07 2014 8:18 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, hospitals, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Children and Childhood, Bahney, Anna, Omaha (Neb), Destination: Delivery, Midwestern States (US), Nebraska

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