Yes, it’s been a while since my last post (don’t say I didn’t warn you). And yes, there’s much to report about that stretch, including a rundown of our trip to England, the baby’s foray into potty-training, and additional attacks on The New York Times Motherlode blog (read the comments).
But for now, I leave you [...]

Between life as a full-time parent and full-time freelance writer, blogging has sunk on the list of priorities this week, and there’s nothing wrong with that at all.
The bad news: this scenario likely will occur more frequently in the next year, so get used to it.
That’s my crass way of notifying you faithful readers that [...]

It’s as if The New York Times has been overrun with new parents these days.
Last week, the paper ran that article about the impacts of cone-scan technology among pediatric dentists (I blogged about it earlier this week). Since then, the Gray Lady has published two other informative-yet-disturbing articles pertaining to the development of our children.
The [...]

Little L (who celebrated her 18-month birthday yesterday, by the way) is sprouting teeth at such breakneck speed these days that we’re approaching to the point where we need to start thinking about taking her to the dentist.
Naturally, then, Powergirl and I were freaked by a lengthy and detailed story that ran in The New [...]

So Scientific American magazine has come out with a list of the ten most effective parenting practices. You can read a friend’s blog SFGate blog post about it here, or read the actual article here.
My personal reaction to the list was something along the lines of, “Yeah, duh.” I mean, most healthy parents hear [...]

Though our delivery boy neglected to bring us Sunday’s copy of The New York Times, a number of friends have tipped me to a story that ran in the Travel section about the growing movement to segregate families on airplanes or elminate them from some flights all together.
(The story’s headline, “Passengers Push for Child-Free Flights,” [...]

My wife and I like to tell people that we have an interfanatical relationship. She’s a Mets fan, I’m a Yankee fan. Yes, sometimes in this house it gets ugly.
But not tonight. Tonight we were rooting for a common cause: the San Francisco Giants.
You see when our daughter was born, because she was born within [...]

Sure, Shawn Bean is an editor and a friend. But even if he weren’t I’d be recommending his new blog, “Pop Culture,” on Parenting.com, the Web site for Parenting and Babytalk magazines (again, both of these magazines are clients).
The blog, to which Shawn posts a few times every week, is great in its honest and [...]

I read a blog post the other day about a report that states kids spend 55 hours a week indoors. A different study said kids spend more than 7 hours a day with electronic media. Considering most kiddies are only awake for an average 84 hours a week, these stats are eye-opening. Forget analysis by [...]

Just when I started to feel confident in my CPR certification, news hit wires today that the American Heart Association is shaking up the long-time strategy for dealing with CPR.
Previously, the approach involved opening the victim’s airway first, starting mouth-to-mouth breathing and doing chest compressions last. Now, however, the AHA says that cardiopulmonary resuscitation should [...]