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Why I Won't Let My Child Watch The Muppets, Toy Story or The Lion King

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But "old enough" can be such a relative term. Is an explosion OK? How about if someone punches someone else? What about an innuendo that soars right over his head but that he might decide to quote on the playground later? But that isn't even the real reason I hold off. It's because I love these movies so much, I want the kids to really appreciate what they're seeing. They won't get the Star Wars reference in the second Toy Story until after they've seen Empire, for instance. They wouldn't understand why Uncle Scar was being so mean to Simba in Lion King. If they don't get the movie, they won't like the movie.  Read more >

What not to wear, family edition

So the pre-Thanksgiving wave of catalogs is well under way. I don't know who these companies are or why they have my name on record, but they're sending me catalogs anyway. I hate to think how many trees died so these places could trick me into an impulse buy, plus shipping.  Read more >

The Baby Doll Dilemma: Is It About the Doll or About Annoying His Sister?

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we all cooed over kiddette and her purple goo-gooing doll, and how funny it was that she knew just what to do with the doll, and isn't it strange how she took right to dolls and stuffed animals while her big brother went right for trucks and cars and airplanes and Legos. And then kiddo noticed the doll. Promptly he became obsessed with it.  Read more >

Partying, pre-princess style

There are two problems with planning kiddette's 2nd birthday party. One is that it's her 2nd birthday party, not her 3rd. The other is that she's apparently not girly-girl enough for the party gods just yet.  Read more >

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aym
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March 2011
About Me: 

I am a writer/editor/smart-aleck type person living with my equally smart-alecked husband and two lovely children who are doomed to grow into smart-alecks in the fine state of New Jersey (that's right. I said "fine state"). I do not know any Real Housewives or "Jersey Shore" cast members, but I do know where the Quick Stop from "Clerks" is.

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editor/writer
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