Erin Perry O'Donnell » Amateur Mom
Circle of Life
I’ve got mental whiplash. My first 30 minutes of work today were dedicating to researching baby boomer debt and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. Serious topics for mature adults. For the next hour, I brainstormed story ideas for a website for new parents by scanning posts about building baby’s vocabulary, separation anxiety, and “playdates” for 8-week-olds who lay flat on their backs. Let’s hope I don’t mix these things up. After all, “baby boomer” means something else entirely … Read entire article »
Filed under: Amateur Mom, Parenting
Are You New Here?
The “here” here refers to our home, populated by three children who let us live there too. This is how my husband and I admonish each other for those parenting hiccups that happen when we just really should know better. Like mentioning ice cream before a single child has eaten a single whole food. These are the forehead-smacking brain farts that lead to “uh-oh” at best and chaos at worst. (My apologies to Kate&Lydia, the moms who dare to speak the truth at Rants From Mommyland, who inspired this list with their own Things I Should Know By Now.) Here are my rookie mistakes of the week: The kid stays in the shopping cart. Once the toddler has experienced freedom from restraint in Aisle 4, there’s no getting her back. Not without a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Amateur Mom, Rookie Mistakes, Top 3s