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• Bike-Friendly Cities Also Family-Friendly

  I'm something of a cyclist. It happened when I moved to a town not far outside of Boulder and I saw that bikes were pretty much standard-issue in that area. It was great: cyclists were everywhere! In the city of Boulder they seemed to be well-respected by drivers and well-taken care of by the bike lane and bike rack gods and it wasn't unusual to see Burley trailers being towed along which contained a kid or two next to the groceries. And it spoke to me about a very different way of life from the isolating car-centric society we seem to have built. Since then, I've had to move again to eastern Pennsylvania, where things aren't nearly so bike-friendly. Read More... Posted Nov 12 2007, 07:30 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: kids, cycling, families, lifestyle, cities, Boulder Colorado, Boulder, bike-friendly

• Why I'm Going to Vaccinate My Unvaccinated Kids

  I'm coming to the conclusion that I've been hiding my head in the sand for several years now when it comes to certain parenting issues. My happy little parenting Bubble Of Goodness. I think a lot had to do with being immersed in a Waldorf school community and all that went along with it: the Attachment-Parenting, no-circumcision (I haven't changed my mind about that one), no-vaccinating, organically-grown parenting ideals that many in that lifestyle, myself included, subscribe to. I'm finding though that as my kids get older or as I chill out a bit or maybe both, that some of these ideals aren't as ideal as I once thought. Read More... Posted Aug 21 2007, 10:28 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 28 comment(s) Filed under: vaccination, immunization, pertussis, Boulder Colorado, whooping cough, The Imperfect Parent