pottytraining

Back on the potty train

January 8, 2012
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Many of our unsuspecting friends were the recipients of phone calls from little Norah last week. – Did she heist my phone and figure out how to phone the last-dialed number? – Is Norah beginning an entrepreneurial venture in telemarketing? – Is she using her “lifelines” in Who Wants to be a Homeschooled Millionaire? No, [...]

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The passive potty trainee

May 4, 2011
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I’d love to declare victory over the 2-kids-in-diapers dilemma and announce that Norah is pottytrained. But I can’t. My pottytraining pride is gone. It has gone the way of my other failed Mommy-goals that were supposed to make me feel like I’m a good Mommy– things like getting my newborns to sleep for long periods [...]

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The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems

July 6, 2009

Tracy Hogg and Melinda Blau, The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems (By Teaching You to Ask the Right Questions): Sleeping, Feeding, and Behavior–Beyond the Basics from Infancy Through Toddlerhood, New York: Atria Books, 2005. Snapshot: Yes, that’s quite a title, but I guess the publishers couldn’t sum up this comprehensive 400-page book any other [...]

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Kansas City Road Trip

June 16, 2009

We just spent an incredibly refreshing (and too short) weekend in Kansas City visiting our dear friends at Redeemer Fellowship. The 6.5-hour trip took us about 9 hours each way, but I think it could have been shorter if Aliza hadn’t asked to use the bathroom when she didn’t have to go. She figured out [...]

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All aboard the potty train

April 26, 2009

Learning is more effective when it is done in community.And it’s nice to have someone to show off for when you learn something new. We’ve been pottytraining since Friday afternoon, and I have to say that it hasn’t been nearly as horrible as I imagined it would be. Once she started initiating on her own [...]

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The Quotable Aliza

April 25, 2009

{I’ve included quotes in their toddler-gibberish form so you can appreciate the grammar and pronunciation. If interpretation is needed let me know.} Waiting in the car to pick up DaddyA: Where Daddy go, Mommy? Where Daddy go?Me: Daddy is at physical therapy right now. It’s a doctor who is helping fix Daddy’s owies in his [...]

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Jetlag meditations on "Child-Directed Maturity Milestones"

August 27, 2008

I made up that phrase one morning around 4am when there was nothing else to do besides calf raises while I paced the floor with Aliza trying to help her get back to sleep before the sun came up. At least, I think that is what my child is trying to tell me as she [...]

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