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Congratulations - you're a grandparent!
When I told my parents I was expecting, I didn't tell them I was expecting. I told them we'd done some interesting sightseeing, and did they want to see pictures? And then I gave them my ultrasound photos.
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Martha Stewart gets into the local food movement with Dinner at Home
It was with some trepidation that I cracked Martha Stewart's latest, Martha Stewart's Dinner at Home: 52 Quick Meals to Cook for Family and Friends.Two hundred recipes, grouped by season, will appeal to the "local" food eater and to those wanting to chow mainly on what doesn't carry either a hefty carbon footprint or crazy price tag.
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They grow up so fast. Don't take bad pictures.
Forget the baby monitor or motorized swing, what I really could have used when my kids were little was photographer and dad Nick Kelsh's entertaining and smart new DVD, How to Photograph Your Baby, a companion to the book by the same name.
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Want your kids to love reading? You need to love reading to them.
Evidently reading to your kids is more than just reading to your kids. And seriously pedigreed educational consultant Diane W. Frankenstein explores her concept of "conversational reading" in her excellent resource, Reading Together: Everything You Need to Know to Raise a Child Who Loves to Read.
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What your best girlfriend would say, if she was a pediatrician
To say that I was a neurotic mess with my first baby would be an understatement; every sniffle and bruise had me wondering if I'd broken her.
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It's Not Me, It's You. Or wait, maybe it is me. A little.
We're already fans of the clever, caustic writing of author and fellow parenting blogger 
Stephanie Wilder-Taylor, so I figured I could give her newest book, It's Not Me, It's You, a good skim and craft a review. As it turns out, as each short chapter came to an end, I found myself saying, "okay...just one more."
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You say it's your Birth Day
When I was pregnant for the first time, I developed an unhealthy affinity for those birth documentaries that had previously repelled me. Something about growing a baby myself made me want to click over and immerse myself in the gory details.
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Happy Grandparents Day!
Hooray for grandparents! They're our lifelines, our pinch hitters, our source of inspiration, and the needed yin to our "no, you can't have another cookie" yang. So in honor of Grandparents Day today, we thought we'd showcase some of our favorite affordable grandparents gifts; every one of these comes in under $20.
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Teacher gifts: Better than buying the teacher a pony
Every year I tell my children's teachers thank you, and every year it feels inadequate. Often when I write notes to go with various teacher gifts, I write, You totally deserve a pony, but I thought this would make less of a mess.
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Cartoons for the thinking mama
When I was in high school, an artist friend of mine and I wrote a graphic novel during biology class featuring the adventures of our teacher's prominent nose, thus beginning my love affair with random and edgy hilarity.
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The gift the kids will love to ruin
With the kids heading back to school, the birthday party circuit will be starting up again. If your kid is old enough to read, yu may understand my temptation to give other kids books rather than more toys.
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