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Perfection and parenting: The toxic combination
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Bethany Rule (SaneMom)
| Family & Home | 24th Jul |
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I've always had a thing for perfection, or at least as long as I can remember. Not necessarily achieving or creating it, but maintaining the illusion of it. As long as things appeared put together, clean, creative,...
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Great Expectations: Or not so great?
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Bethany Rule (SaneMom)
| Family & Home | 13th Apr |
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Or not-so-great, as it may be: "I expect I'll be home in an hour." "I expect you to eat everything on your plate." "I expect he'll forget to take out the trash." "I expect...
5 votes so far
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Too-Great Expectations?
Written by
Susan Newman, Ph.D.
| Family & Home | 6th Mar |
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Families are getting smaller, and have been since the early 1960s, giving parents more time to devote to each child. As a result, parents today all seem to be pushing for “star” children. Children would...
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True Confessions of a Millennium Mom -- Part 1
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Millennium Mom
| Balancing Act | 1st Feb |
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Ah... the days that I longed for my entire life have arrived. I’m a wife. I’m a mother. I’m a homeowner. I have a college degree and a great job. I’m in grad school. Oh... I have two golden retrievers!...
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Contracts and Neighborhood Childcare
Written by
MaryP
| Family & Home | 25th Oct 07 |
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A friend, who lives in a small city a few hours away, had just found "the perfect" woman to provide care for her child."She's close to my work, the other kids are happy, the playroom is gorgeous,...
5 votes so far
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Understanding the SuperMom Trap
Written by
Tonya Ramsey
| Just For You | 19th Oct 07 |
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What is it in moms that makes us feel we have to take on the SuperMom identity? What makes us put on that cape? If you talk to working mothers that you know, or even examine your own experiences, falling into the SuperMom...
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So: What Don't YOU Do?
Written by
Jordan Sadler
| Balancing Act | 12th Aug 07 |
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We’re often told that we can’t have it all. While most of us working moms seem to have gotten that memo, I think we may have missed the one that told us that we can’t DO it all.Now, here’s the...
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