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Parenting magazine has released its list of the 10 best cities for families. At the tippy top? Arlington, Va. And if you’ve ever known a parent who lives in Arlington, you can kind of see why.
But here’s why Parenting thinks Arlington is so great (and a list of the second through 10th best). Continue reading »
The August issue of Parenting: The Early Years rounds up the six friends every mom needs in her life. Sure, writer Patricia Curtis makes some good points. It’s nice to have friends you can relate to or who push you. But not ones that push your buttons, which I’m afraid the glam-mom recommendation does.
Also, she left a few people off the list whom I would be very unhappy to live without. So I added three more friends at the end. Share yours in comments.
The list: Continue reading »
I have three kids, with four years between each birth. When I want to torture myself, I do the math and recall that, a decade from now, I will have one starting college, one starting high school and one in the fourth grade. For a person who is exactly 12 months younger than her only sibling, this scenario is simply ridiculous. That’s too many years between kids.
Except the four-year stretch has, so far, been pretty good. One at a time in those totally dependent newborn to 3 years. One at a time in daycare (flash-forward to college — one at a time there, too). Plenty of breathing room for everybody.
So what is the optimal number of years between siblings? Eighteen months? Two years? Five? Continue reading »
My husband and I shared the bed with all three of our babies. We were fine with it and it worked out just fine, especially during the newborn stage.
But we’ve already kicked our son out — he’s six months old — because after two already, I knew that getting them out when they’re older is hard, just hard.
The June issue of Parenting: The Early Years magazine devised a whole system to help parents reclaim their bed. It’s loaded with ideas that sound great. Yet I know from experience they don’t always work.
Here’s their plan in a nutshell:
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