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Is it wrong to reward your kids with food?

Erin Zammett Ruddy — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:01:55 +0000

At book club the other night a friend was telling us that she doesn’t keep any cookies or candy or sweets in her house because, if she did, she’d eat them all. The mothers in the group responded practically in unison: “So how do you bribe your kids?”

Coming Soon on Parenting.com! (Ooooo, Newness!)

Taylor Newman — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:04:34 +0000

Hi Parenting Post readers! Just dropping in for a quick hello, and to update you on some exciting news. Ready? Drum roll please…

A Retrospective

Maggie Cheung of Mighty Maggie — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:32:55 +0000

For this LAST POST I thought I might write, you know, a RETROSPECTIVE. It's been a while, after all, I have 200% more children than I did when I started, and maybe I have learned a thing or two. So I looked back at my very first post and HOW IRONIC: it was a "wait - did the baby ACTUALLY sleep through the night?" post which is pretty much exactly the kind of post I wrote on my personal website today, only with more "HOW do we make it HAPPEN?".

I’m Running Away But I’ll Tell You Where to Find Me

Kathryn Thompson — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:49:13 +0000

Reading my fellow bloggers’ farewells these past two weeks, I feel a little like a character at the end of an Ocean’s Eleven movie. We’re all moving on with our families and careers and Parenting.com is evolving and changing. After five and a half years and around two hundred and fifty posts, I’m taking down my shingle at The Parenting Post, a blog I was a founding writer of. I’m taking down my shingle, that is, until they decide to call the gang back together for our next impossible heist.

Our Nanny Broke Up With Us Over Text

Sarah Preston Gorenstein — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:17:49 +0000

After more than two years with us, since Preston was three months old, our nanny quit on Saturday night—wait for it—over a text message. She sent my husband a text at 7:30 p.m. saying, simply, "Hi, Jay, just wanted to tell you I got a new job." A new job? Huh!? We didn't even know she was looking…totally blind-sided by this. After leaving my job at Playboy last month we had to reduce her hours a little and she said she was fine with it, and seemed very understanding.

As Hard As It Sounds

Maggie Cheung of Mighty Maggie — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:51:43 +0000

A year or so before Emma was born I signed up to serve a three-year term on a church committee. DUMB. Dumb dumb dumb. At the time I was thinking, "Something else to do! A chance to get out of the house! Grown up conversation!" And it was for a while, but then Emma was born and tonight was the first meeting I've attended since. I mean, at this point they should pretty much fire me for poor attendance.

Pardon Our Delightfulness

Kathryn Thompson — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:34:38 +0000

Taking a toddler for a ride on an airplane is a lot like making her wait in a gray room for an hour before strapping her down with a belt to a fast moving object, that makes her ears feel funny, that’s full of mad people who want complete silence for two hours. It’s a whole lot like that. Throw in the fact that if the toddler moves around enough to jostle the seat in front of her, she will enrage the person sitting in that seat and it makes for a whole lot of good times.

New Year’s Resolutions: Yep, I Made Some

Sarah Preston Gorenstein — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:45:16 +0000

I am not much of a resolution maker usually. Unless you count the one I make every year, since high school: to exercise more (or at all) and eat healthy. As 2011 came to a close, I couldn’t help but think that this should be the year I actually make, and stick to, some resolutions. The big resolution I wanted to make is unfortunately not really in my control, so I thought long and hard about the resolutions I can make that I can control and here’s what I came up with.

A MyBrownBaby Farewell

Denene Millner of MyBrownBaby — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:43:44 +0000

I was the executive editor at Honey when I got the call from a colleague: Parenting magazine was looking for an editor and if I was interested in the position, he’d put in a word for me. I enjoyed editing profiles and fashion stories about Mary J. Blige, Nia Long and Beyonce at Honey, a now-defunct entertainment magazine for young women of color, but I was also a young mom of two little girlpies, and the idea of working at a magazine that celebrated babies and mothers—and respected working moms by letting them actually see their kids at night—was intriguing.

2012 Resolution: Sleep Through The Night

Maggie Cheung of Mighty Maggie — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:07:02 +0000

I forgot how hard this was. Even when you know it could be worse? It's still hard. Take a look at this picture from Christmas. Do you see what those eyes and those dark circles underneath are saying? They're saying I AM SOOOOOO TIIIIIIIIIREDDDDD.