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The Facts Of Life … In 5 Minutes Or Less 14 Jun 2013 | 03:49 pm
Thanks to Kirsten Gillibrand, my 7-year-old now knows all about how babies are made. Not that New York’s junior senator actually sat down with the boy to lay out the facts, with infographics and pie c...
One & Done 10 May 2013 | 03:54 pm
Out of the blue last weekend, apropos of basically nothing I could immediately ascertain, my 7-year-old announced that he wanted a brother. Or a sister. He’d take either, he informed me a bit wistfull...
Big News! 19 Apr 2013 | 06:46 pm
We have BIG NEWS about Don’t Put Lizards In Your Ears’ sister blog Science of Parenthood. Starting TODAY, Lifescript, the healthy living website for women, will be featuring SOP’s illustrations, creat...
Am I Smarter Than A Seven-Year-Old? 12 Apr 2013 | 03:06 pm
Am I smarter than my seven-year-old? Apparently I am not. This is fairly amazing to me as I went to college. And graduate school. Okay, I studied theater and dance, not astrophysics. But still. You’d ...
The Child’s Mealtime Contract 15 Mar 2013 | 06:18 pm
So, you thought feeding kids was simply about serving up tasty, nutritious meals? LOL! That’s a good one! If you want your kid to eat, you better get acquainted with the Mealtime Rules. By virtue of t...
An Inconvenient Truth 15 Feb 2013 | 06:56 pm
From our house in Orlando, we’re about 15 minutes from Disney World’s backdoor. Which makes the Magic Kingdom (and its satellite parks) a tempting fallback for those endless I-have-no freakin’-clue-ho...
Everything I know about parenting I learned in middle-school science class 18 Jan 2013 | 10:43 pm
It’s absolutely true! Everything I ever needed to know about parenting I learned in middle school science and math class. Only I didn’t realize it then because I was way too busy chasing boys to actua...
How I Taught My Son To Ride 11 Jan 2013 | 07:42 pm
“Mommy! We don’t need your car anymore!” my six-year-old shouted happily as he pounced on his daddy and me Christmas morning. “SANTA LEFT BIKES!” The bikes’ provenance notwithstanding, my son Fletcher...
Why My Six-Year-Old Isn’t Getting A Star Wars Blaster For Christmas 17 Dec 2012 | 11:56 pm
For the last two years, my six-year-old, Fletcher has been coveting a certain Star Wars blaster. It’s hard to tell the differences among the assorted Star Wars weaponry, but I think it’s one of the mo...
My Next Big Thing 6 Dec 2012 | 01:07 am
I rarely participate in chain letters anymore. No matter how many chain letters I sent out as a gullible hopeful youngster, I never got anything back, even though I was promised millions if I just I a...
