Archive for the ‘Superheroes’ Category
It’s About The Little Things..
Posted in Get All Mushy, Handmade Holidays, My Kids, Superheroes, Things I Make, tagged boys, Halloween, homemade, imagination, robot, TARDIS on 6 May 2014| Leave a Comment »
When The Nightmare Comes..
Posted in Confessions of a Real Mother, Hippy Shit, My Kids, Superheroes, tagged empowerment, kids, magic, nightmares on 9 March 2011| 6 Comments »
My middle son started suffering badly from nightmares back in the Fall. I would awake to him screaming in his sleep, to him gently shaking me awake, or to him curled up at the foot of our bed — I shudder to think of the number of times I might have kicked at him, thinking he was the cat!
At first I tried talking to him about them — attempting to see if there was any link between them and something else going on in his life — but I eventually realized they’re likely a resurgence of the nightmares he had as a toddler, so I started focusing on teaching him coping strategies.
Learning Curves: Boys, Boys, Boys and Boobies
Posted in Baby!, Breastfeeding, Confessions of a Real Mother, My Kids, Superheroes, tagged babies, boobies, boys, breast milk, breastfeeding, extended breastfeeding, tandem nursing on 18 August 2010| 10 Comments »
This isn’t going to be the post you think it is. Seriously. My boys’ current fascination with breasts has very little to do with the titillating prospect of female nudity. No, my boys’ current fascination with breasts is purely based in their function — just when I think I’ve learned everything I need to know about breastfeeding, my boys teach me something new.