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E.'s father bought him these supercool and very bizarro shoes last week, and they seem to have given him superhuman powers. I've had to admonish the child repeatedly to quit climbing the walls and to instead go outside and climb a tree or a telephone pole or something. I'm trying to figure...

This was the scene at our house early this morning. Ten-year-old E. only very rarely comes to our bed anymore, but last night he had a bad dream, so I settled him in next to his sis. I don't think that anything gives me as much pleasure as a parent as seeing how important my four children are to...

My 10-year-old son, E. and his 6-year-old cousin, M. love fire. And fireworks. They also love knives, rocks, and perilously pointy sticks. In the photo above, you are getting a peek at the cousins enjoying a little slice o' dangerous boy heaven in front of our house on a recent Saturday. As you can...

As I've mentioned , ours is a post-divorce family. And since my divorce, both my ex-husband and I have remarried, meaning our children now have two stepparents. And since the whole stepparenting thing became part of our family life, and because I am a voracious consumer of family life blogs, I've...

Where does the adjective "freaking" fall on your parenting list of acceptable/unacceptable words? As in, "This is so freaking unfair !" Does it fall above or below "fricking?" Do you consider it the same as a child saying "f&%*ing?" Comment below. (And I'll...

There are parents out there that think of their children as a living breathing baby dolls. That’s the only explanation I have for people who force their screaming and kicking children into outfits they have absolutely no desire to wear or their babies who are too young to know any better. Parents exert...

My eldest child, 17-year-old H. favors a sartorial style heavy on hemp necklaces (which he creates), tie-dye shirts and flip flops. I'd love to see him in snappier attire - because he's so handsome - but I assume he'll eventually retire the tie-dye, just as the rest of us did. Since I know...

Leni is very happy. Leni is very mad. I can't tell. Heidi, however, is slightly amused and not encouraging her. This is supermodel parenting 101, folks. Textbook. Photo

Thanks for visiting my new Babble blog. I'm really excited to be here. I'm a daily Babble reader, and I've contributed several essays to the site, including one on "overparenting," and another on why I like having a large family . And I do indeed have a pretty big brood, especially...

We hear a lot about football players who behave badly, so it's always nice to read about those that don't. Kurt Warner, the Super Bowl winning quarterback who is currently having a late-career resurgence in Arizona (he's 37, which is old for the NFL) is also a father. A father of seven. Two...