By Elise Jones, babybites blog editor This past Wednesday, we were a part of an exciting Green Decor conversation that happened with about 130,000 people. The green experts, Practically Green, and the fantastic paint company, Mythic Paint, joined forces to host a huge Twitter Party and invited some of the top notch experts in green […]
Category: Dads
Hey dads! Did you think we’d forget about you? No way! Here you’ll find articles, videos and events on the challenges and joys of fatherhood, balancing work with family life, cool products and gear, mother-in-law issues, staying connected to your wife, how to get more sleep and more!
Parentless Parents Notes From Our Workshop with Allison Gilbert
This week we had a insightful workshop with Allison Gilbert, author of the critically-acclaimed Parentless Parents: How the Loss of Our Mothers and Fathers Impacts the Way We Raise Our Children. As so many women continue having babies later and later, Parentless Parents workshops were created for parents navigating parenthood without their own mother and […]
Ask Dr. Gramma Karen: Readers’ Comments on Advice for Giving Unsolicited Advice
Dear Readers, My 9/21/11 column, “Advice for Giving Unsolicited Advice”, generated both a lot of emotion and e-mails, so in this column I want to share some of these e-mails, as well as my additional comments. One grandfather wrote: …I do not like the image of “walking on egg shells” when considering when an in-law […]
Green Parenting: Green Decor Q&A on Oct 5 at noon
By Elise Jones, blog editor Are you sprucing up your house a bit and wondering what products you should use? Or is it time for a major overhaul of your interior decor? Either way, you definitely want to join in our Q&A on Wednesday, October 5 at noon – 1 p.m. to learn more about […]
Ask Dr. Gramma Karen: Advice on Giving Unsolicited Advice
When does giving advice become interfering? I ask because my daughter-in-law told me that I was “interfering with her parenting” when I told her she should let my granddaughter go to a sleep over birthday party. My granddaughter is 12 and tends to be a bit shy. I think this party would be great opportunity […]
Parenting Children with Special Needs
Hi Everyone! This week’s babybites theme is parenting children with specials needs. As many of you know, I was a learning specialist for many years so this topic is especially near and dear to my heart. One of the most incredible speakers on this topic is a woman named Meg Zucker (born with a rare […]
A Letter from Heather – Parenting Children with Special Needs
Hi Everyone! This week’s babybites theme is parenting children with specials needs. As many of you know, I was a learning specialist for many years so this topic is especially near and dear to my heart. One of the most incredible speakers on this topic is a woman named Meg Zucker (born with a rare […]
Remembering 9/11
Hello Everyone! 10 years ago, this September 11th I was living and teaching in London when my husband called the school I was working at. “I know you’re in the middle of teaching,” he said (London, as you know, is 5 hours ahead), “but America is under some sort of attack. They are saying that […]