Tag: Parenting life
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Six Reasons Why Mattel Has Made Me Rethink My Barbie Ban
ADIOS BARBIE Let’s just put it out there. Barbie used to be my nemesis. As a child, I found her thin, plastic limbs too angular to play with. She seemed cold and unfeeling, unlike my menagerie of soft, squishy, baby dolls and furry stuffed animals. I wanted nothing to do with Barbie or her dream…
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Raising Teens is Hard. Is There an App for That?
There’s nothing worse than thinking you alone are raising the spawn of Satan. When I lived in Brooklyn, New York with my two toddler boys, there was nothing I liked more than hanging out at the playground with other moms and their kids and realizing that my sons could have been a lot worse. At…
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Dreaming of a Jet Plane: Ms. Meltingpot Wants to Fly Away to one of these Five Travel Destinations
Hi Meltingpot Readers, Real talk, I’m exhausted. Like mentally and physically spent. Why? Because I just finished the manuscript for a new book. It was a book collaboration with an Olympic athlete and it was a lot of work. This was the first time I’ve ever tackled a project like that and it was exciting,…
