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September 2012

September 24, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: MoMA’s “Century of the Child” Exhibit

"It’s worthwhile for grownups to consider our own understandings and ideals of childhood, because, after...

September 17, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Another Look at “Disappearing Mothers”

"Roiphe misses the fact that motherhood is a calling for many women, and that engaging...

September 11, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Parenting in the Big Picture

"Sometimes the work of understanding God’s promises is pretty simple, and reading with my toddler...

August 2012

August 27, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: A Letter to My Children’s Future Therapists

"I know I’m not perfect; we all get only one perfect Parent, and I’m clearly...

August 20, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Teach Your Children Well

"What’s best for our kids is to develop their character while we let them be...

August 06, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Olympic Parenting

"'Parent' is a verb, and it’s gender neutral, whether one is an Olympian or an...

July 2012

July 30, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Raising an Olympian

"Most of the athletes competing in the Olympic games will come home to families and...

July 23, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Christmas in July

"Christmas in July assures me that Emmanuel is a year-round gift that transcends liturgy and...

July 16, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: It Takes a Village (of Time-Traveling Dinosaurs)

"It takes a village, they say, and that message rings true all the way from...

July 09, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Waiting on Faith and a Fictional Goose

"So much of church liturgy is about waiting, and my toddler is practicing with more...

July 02, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Having It All…Or Not

"It is still anathema is this culture -- where 'having it all' gets defined by...

June 2012

June 25, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Karen Klein, Jerry Sandusky, and Redemption

I don’t know what kind of redemption is possible for any of the players in...

June 11, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Facebook for the Whole Family?

"Convincing kids—and their parents—to sign up the whole family for Facebook isn’t just about making...

June 04, 2012

Me, Jessica Simpson, and The Postpartum Road to Recovery

"Why do we love to look at pregnant women but still expect new mothers to...

May 2012

May 21, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Are You Dad Enough?

"Let’s shift the conversations on parenthood away from polemical and prescriptive and try to keep...

May 14, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Child-Free by Choice

"Both Badinter’s book and the child-free couples she describes represent opposition to the belief that...

May 07, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Got Preschoolers? There’s an App for that.

"[C]hildren’s education always needs to be mediated by thoughtful and invested adults; in that ideal...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Pregnancy, Ambivalence, and Faith

"I write about this here because I don’t know how to reconcile the joy of...

April 23, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Mind, Body, and Breast—Public Discourses on Breastfeeding

"Lactation is not a disability; it’s a choice, yet it points to larger social discomforts...

April 16, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Ann Romney, Hilary Rosen, and Going Beyond the "Mommy Wars"

"The dichotomy between mothers who work outside the home and those who don’t is false,...

April 02, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Pregnant Joggers, Black Kids in Hoodies, and the Strangers Among Us

"These are lessons that I need to teach my daughters, to be cautious and mindful,...

March 2012

March 26, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Thank You for Being a Friend

"To me, it rings false to pretend that we relate to and like everyone the...

March 19, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Into the Woods

"Louv’s argument is clear and multi-faceted about why children (and all of us, really) need...

March 12, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: A Sweet Season

"It’s maple syrup season, and we are pumped for the simple pleasures of pancakes."

March 05, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Food, Food Everywhere – Obesity and Responsibility

"That food can lead to sin seems obvious, but the sin resides within our hearts,...

February 2012

February 27, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: The Rise of Single Motherhood

"For Christian marriage, it’s important to cling to the ideal, to hold fast to the...

February 20, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Salvaging the "Date Night"

“Date night doesn’t mean the same thing now as it did before my husband and...

February 13, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Prayers for the Nation

"But the National Prayer Breakfast, established in 1953 by the prayer groups in Congress, reminds...

January 2012

January 30, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: What’s in a Name?

"...children are not solely the property of their parents."

January 23, 2012

Modern Family’s Cussing Controversy

"To what extent are audiences passive or active in the shaping of media, which, ultimately,...

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