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Teacher Holiday Gifts: My 2 Cents

MomGrind — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:00:24 +0000

Make your life easy. Make the teacher happy. If you want to buy your kids' teacher a gift for the holidays (and this is optional), by all means go ahead and do so, but avoid the "Best Teacher Ever!" mug or any mug for that matter. In fact, it's best to avoid anything made of ceramics, anything personalized, and anything that the hundreds of Yahoo Stores that sell personalized gifts tell you you should buy.

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Teacher Holiday Gifts: My 2 Cents

Do Kids Hate Veggies Just Because We Expect Them To?

MomGrind — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:00:26 +0000

A real-life friend recently asked for my advice – she wanted to know how come Israeli kids are so much more open to eating veggies than American kids seem to be. I actually don’t know if this is still the case in Israel of today, since the junk food disease is spreading around the world [...]

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Do Kids Hate Veggies Just Because We Expect Them To?

Things I Want My Daughters to Know

MomGrind — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:00:03 +0000

1. I love you. 2. You are beautiful. 3. As you grow up, you will hear many times that you are not beautiful. Teenage boys, or mean girls, might laugh at you or say mean things about your appearance. If you let them, these casual comments can cut deep and leave permanent scars. In addition, many companies will work very hard to convince you that you're not beautiful enough, or that you need to look a certain way to be beautiful. Don't believe them. They are wrong, and their messages are self-serving. The mean girls want to put you down in order to feel better about themselves. The companies do it to make you buy their products.

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Things I Want My Daughters to Know

Clearly, I’m a Better Parent than You Are

MomGrind — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:00:50 +0000

Twice in the last few weeks, I've been thrown into parenting wars. Not necessarily Mommy Wars - just parenting wars, where parents of both genders become engaged in a subtle, or not-so-subtle, "I'm a better parent than you are" argument. One such argument was about cell phone use in middle school. The other was about our kids' education, and more specifically, private vs. public school. I don't get it. Assuming none of us is abusive, we are all doing our best. And looking around me, at the parents I know in real life, we ARE all doing our best.

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Clearly, I’m a Better Parent than You Are

Ten Signs That Your Kids are Getting Older (Or: Raising Tweens)

MomGrind — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:59:00 +0000

1. You discover that the box of baby wipes that used to always be on the kitchen counter and was used multiple times each day, is all dried up. Apparently, you haven’t used it in over a year. 2. Getting out of the house is as easy as “OK, put your shoes on and let’s go.” No need to take a diaper bag filled with diapers, said wipes, snacks and toys. 3. You wake up in the morning before they do. 4. They have lost their baby fat and have become tall and lanky – in fact, almost as tall as you are.

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Ten Signs That Your Kids are Getting Older (Or: Raising Tweens)

They’re Back. So Is Their Mess. I Couldn’t be Happier!

MomGrind — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:00:17 +0000

I wake up and go downstairs, head a little foggy. I didn't get quite enough sleep last night. Entering the kitchen, I see that my husband had left me small "gifts" in the sink - the dishes he had used for his own breakfast but didn't bother washing. "Darn," I think to myself. "Do I REALLY need to clean up after him?"

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They’re Back. So Is Their Mess. I Couldn’t be Happier!

I Miss You

MomGrind — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:00:37 +0000

You left a couple of days ago to spend a month with your grandparents. I'm happy for you that you get to have this experience, and I'm excited about spending the month with your dad, doing things that we've been doing less of since becoming parents, such as traveling, going to the movies and going out to eat. But I am so sad!