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Helping My 13-Year-Old Get Ready for Social Media

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It is times like these that make me think she may be ready to dip her toe in the tumultuous ocean of social media. Not because writing a good blog makes you savvy to the ways of Facebook, but because she has demonstrated that she can share her feelings effectively to the world (or me). She writes, she proofreads, she edits. I have an almost 13-year-old that is bringing the whole social media thing and her use of it to my forefront. I have several ideas running through my head on how to approach this, but I still have time.  Read more >

Why You Shouldn't Have "The Talk" with Your Tween

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I have an amazing power that was only recently discovered. I don’t twitch when the word puberty is said. I not only don’t twitch, I get happy and love to talk about it with parents and girls. Girls only. I have no idea about the boys. Armed with this new super power I recently worked with a teen counselor and we put on a program for some local Girl Scouts. We held it around Valentines Day and called it Loving Your Growing Body. It was complete with snacks and door prizes and I have to say it was a huge success.  Read more >

Adoption And School Projects

Enu came home yesterday all excited about the time line project assigned to her class. She has to have at least 3 pictures and 5 events on her timeline including birth and present day. I honestly don’t remember Mita doing this assignment last year, but I do remember Meg doing it. This makes me wonder if it was assigned to Mita and she didn’t make a big deal about it or if she kept the assignment on the down-low because it was a big deal to her.  Hmm.  Read more >

Pure Joy

Watching the girls grow up is downright amazing.  I’ve said in the past that when they are small you are so exhausted and tired of saying “no”, of doing the diaper thing, the potty training thing, the sharing thing that you tend to not pay attention or appreciate fully the gains.  Read more >

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Full Name
Mandy W.
Member Since
March 2009
About Me: 

A mom of four girls.  I am a RN and a Board Certified Lactation Consultant (boobologist if you will:).   I have been married to my high school crush for 16 years and still am quite in love with him :)  Two of my girls are biological and two we adopted from Ethiopia in 2008. I write about life with a house full of growing girls, breastfeeding adoption and the little things on my blog at www.FourAgainstTwo.com

Profession: 
RN, IBCLC (International Board Certified Lacation Consultant
Location: 
The hilly part of Ohio

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