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Putting On My Own Oxygen Mask First
This is Guest Post #1 of 10 from Christine Carter’s Raising Happiness blog. You can read the full post here. In fact, you’ll have to, since I’m only posting a teaser here on my blog. In August 2009 I...
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Dumping on your friends? Or Building a Village?
If you’re following along at home with your own copy of Raising Happiness, this what I got out of Chapter 2 with a little help from conceptual metaphor analysis. “I want to keep the news of our...
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
The garden metaphor is one of my favorites. I don’t want to use it ad nauseam, but I kinda hafta, in the account that it’s so cool. Reposted from Raising Happiness, which offers science-based parenting...
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Gratitude
I’m a huge fan of gratitude. So much so that I edited an online gratitude journal for the Greater Good Science Center for the better part of two years. (The journal has now morphed into this cool...
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Empathy for the Mompetitor!
In the most ideal of worlds, I would be able to completely rise above the mompetitions and still feel sisterly toward their participants without any hint of derision or condescension. But let’s be...
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Life at Our House
This year I decided to do something different with our Christmas cards (in addition to actually mailing them). You see, I just couldn’t send out a blank card with our family picture in good faith. It...
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Y is for You
This is what kills me. “You” are “you plural.” And no one knows how that happened. You were a cell. You divided. And now you have two noses and four arms and twenty toes. One of you wakes at the...
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God–What’s There To Say?
A week from today my daughter will make her first communion. It’s a big deal. I know it’s a big deal. But I’ve only been Catholic for a year. I feel a little awkward attending classes with my daughter,...
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Vacation Responder: Maternity Leave
Going to have a baby? Then you know how much planning needs to be done. You have to figure out the registry, get on the preschool waiting lists, and research 529 plans. The more work you can do before...
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THE BOOK OF KID: the origin story
I didn’t write THE BOOK OF KID. My daughter’s third-grade class did. I just published it. Their teacher, Ms Diamond, asked her students to give their parents some child-rearing advice. And it turns out...
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