Category: Parenting and Family Life

Hambet is five (six in February — !). For Christmas, he deserves a big, shiny, solitary lump of coal. But Santa is a softie and wants to leave a little bit more than that. My question is — what? Hambet doesn’t seem to have a particular wish this year, and he seems to be at… Continue reading Suggestions, please

I realized today why I stopped reading this genre of magazine. I was looking through the Parents Magazine website to read baby stuff, and I came across this article titled Are You A Discipline Wimp?, followed by the quiz Are You A Pushover Parent? Please tell me I am not alone in that I would… Continue reading Halt! Put Down That Parenting Magazine!

Yesterday, breastfeeding Moms across America staged a protest at airports due to the fact a nursing mother was kicked off an airplane for nursing in public. As always I am baffled. Why is country so “forward thinking” when it comes to issues of immorality, and backwards when it comes to issues of child-rearing and motherhood?… Continue reading Why Is This An Issue?

Each day I start out positive and go through what needs to be done in my head. I get up super early, take my shower, blood sugar, and prenatal vitamin, clean the bathroom, start laundry, do my own school work and lay out the kids’ clothes! My daily “To Do” list is written out and… Continue reading Am I Crazy?

According to the NY Times, To Be Married Means to Be Outnumbered (registration required). The American Community Survey, released this month by the Census Bureau, found that 49.7 percent, or 55.2 million, of the nation’s 111.1 million households in 2005 were made up of married couples — with and without children — just shy of… Continue reading Weird…or maybe not

A reader wrote in: This Back to Sleep stuff drives me nuts.  I don’t know why it is safer, but it can be really hard to get some babies to sleep on their backs.  I have two daughters, 3 and 2 1/2 weeks, who both refuse to sleep on their backs.  Both will sleep for… Continue reading Back Sleeping Discussion At HMS Blog

Yesterday I typed out an excerpt from the book This Is The Faith by Canon Francis Ripley on NFP. Any practicing Catholic knows the NFP debate is nothing new. The “contraceptive mentality” vs.”reponsibility” argument. Neither side really spoke logically to me, and that may simply be because everyone’s set of circumstances are slightly different. Perhaps… Continue reading Once Again…To NFP or to Not NFP, the continuous question