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- Location
- outside Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Birthday
- September 07
- Bio
- A high school English teacher who's newly back to work after having her first kid this summer.
Someone who enjoys writing in theory, but not as much in practice.
Hoping that this blog will get me writing a little something here and there that might be read by a couple of people.
MY RECENT POSTS
- My Son's Top Ten Favorite
Toys: A Buyer's Guide
February 20, 2009 12:46PM - Loo-chi-AHN
February 19, 2009 10:52AM - Nature, Magic, and Toys
November 14, 2008 03:39PM - Our Tortured Entrance into
Parenthood
September 30, 2008 03:38PM - Can we start a real parenting
revolution??
September 28, 2008 04:40PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “This is all very
interesting to me, because I'm
a high school
English teacher,
bu…”
April 23, 2009 12:18AM - “YES! Thank you for this
post. I just watched this
movie with
my husband (who'd
ne…”
April 06, 2009 05:55PM - “OK, I don't know why I
can't put up a link to my
post, but
it's there on my
blog.…”
March 31, 2009 10:58PM - “Man, I could have
written EXACTLY this post a
couple of years
ago. But here
I am…”
March 31, 2009 10:55PM - “Great post. I bet that
if people started doing this
en masse,
it would change
the…”
February 21, 2009 06:55PM
Beta's Links
My Son's Top Ten Favorite Toys: A Buyer's Guide
After all that news about how Toys from China Will Kill our Kids, I decided to take the uber-safe, crunchy, upper-middle-classy, "green" high-ground when buying toys for my now eight-month-old son. At this stage, he puts everything he can in his mouth, so it is especially important that I buy him… Read full post »
Loo-chi-AHN
My baby boy's name is Lucian. Pronounced Loo-chi-AHN. It's the Romanian way of pronouncing it. I realize that there are other ways to pronounce it -- like the French way and the German way. But I love the Romanian pronunciation, and my kid is half Romanian, so that's that.
People… Read full post »
Nature, Magic, and Toys
So, lately I've been reading Louv's book, The Last Child on the Woods.
The basic thesis of the book is that people, kids especially, need nature, and that the lack of a relationship with nature is hurting kids' powers of sustained attention and creativity, and may hurt them emotionally.
This… Read full post »
Our Tortured Entrance into Parenthood
My husband and I came really close to not having any kids at all.
We spent eight years together weighing options and watching our friends to see which path we wanted our lives to follow.
We saw our childless friends traveling to Africa, Asia, and Cuba, while our parenting friends… Read full post »
Can we start a real parenting revolution??
Look, I don't want this to be a parenting blog, but four things are preventing me from writing about anything else right now:
1. I just had a baby boy three months ago.
2. As a result of #1, I'm not getting out much lately.
3. I don't go back… Read full post »
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