Long story short- we decided to have a second child and I miscarried twice. Something strange happened during the second pregnancy that ended in miscarriage and I really started to panic. Panic lead to dread and then I realized... I didn't want to be pregnant. It was an awful realization and then we miscarried. I'm very sad that we miscarried, ( Read more... )

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Here is the situation: we are in hour 16 of a sleepover at my house with my daughter (age 6) and our friends, a girl (age 6) and her brother (age 4). Their family and ours merged forces years ago. So far so good as the sleepover goes. We've done this before. But, here's the question ( Read more... )

Tonight, after dinner, when I produced mysteriously familiar pastel colored wrapped Hershey's kisses (from behind my closed bedroom door), kisses just like the ones the Easter bunny left in E's Easter basket, I was asked, with a sly sideways glance, "are these from Easter ( Read more... )

I know it is so easy (and needed) to draw attention to the negatives and disparities of the world we live in, but E allows me the opportunity to bear witness to some of the things that we are doing right. (Yeah, I know, she is a child of cultural and educational privilege.) Anyway ( Read more... )

I worry that my daughter, a six-year old, is less accommodating than her siblinged counterparts. She spends a great deal of time with other kids, so it shouldn't be a question of isolation or socialization, but.... She seems to be rather insistent about having things "her way." However, perhaps I am mistaken in thinking this is about being an only ( Read more... )

Have any of you coslept or do you co sleep now? My 3 y.o. daughter has her own bed and room but every night she'll come in at like 2 in the morning and ask to sleep with us. I'm fine with it. The hub thinks it might be damaging to her in some way and that she'll never want to sleep alone the whole night. What do you think?

I'd like to ask the group for some advice. I'm dealing with some discipline issues. I'm using time out, which is somehwat effective so far. However, I don't want to put her in time out for every negative behavior. A) How can I determine what's important enough for a time out? B) What do I do for a "smaller" infraction such as refusing to do ( Read more... )

Hello all - I am the 41 year old mom of a 23-mo. old boy, Rumi. With my husband of 20+ years we are a happy family of three and plan to stay that size, due to both economic and lifestyle stuff. I am sick to death of people making comments about the hardships we, and he, are in for since he won't have siblings or asking when we plan to have another ( Read more... )

I was talking to my dad this afternoon about the power struggles I've been dealing with with Samantha. So he says "What do people do that have 3 kids? They deal with it. You only have one." That is so ignorant. Just because I have only one, I'm not allowed to complain? All my problems should be minimal because I don't have more children? Where do ( Read more... )