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  • It's Okay to Make Mistakes. Really.

      Noah greeted me waving a half-eaten drumstick in one hand and a chubby fistful of steak fries in the other.  I’d just deposited him and some grocery bags on the kitchen floor so that I could run back out to the car for the rest.  Upon my return I discovered that he’d wasted no time opening the fried chicken from the deli ...
    Posted to Parenting Isn't For Sissies (Weblog) by Jennifer DuBose on March 1, 2008
  • Jamie Lynn and the Teachable Moment

      I was dozing on the couch, doing some last-minute channel-surfing before surrendering the remote to my nine-year-old son Noah and his Play Station, when a sound-byte announcing teen starlet Jamie Lynn Spears’ pregnancy grabbed my attention.  And Noah’s.    Oh brother.   “Yeah, I heard about that,” Noah ...
    Posted to Parenting Isn't For Sissies (Weblog) by Jennifer DuBose on February 1, 2008
  • Weak-In-the-Knees About the Birds and the Bees?

    Weak- in-the-knees about the “birds and the bees?”  Me too.   Facing the big “sex talk” means facing the fact that our kids are growing up.  You might be surprised by how much your child already knows, though, and by how much you’ve already taught.    Educating your child about sexuality is a process, not just a ...
    Posted to Parenting Isn't For Sissies (Weblog) by Jennifer DuBose on December 29, 2007
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