Exhibit C: Hitting

Originally published four or five blogs ago (the blogs having been set on cyberfire). Republished for this post.
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A few months ago, Sariah went through a phase of hitting Jane. She wasn’t doing it out of anger, and it was never hard. I figured out that she was doing it for me. She only ever did […]

Parenting a Three-Year-Old is Delicate Business

Originally published on an old blog that was set on fire years ago. Republished for this post. Just please disregard my first-time-mom, smug, Aren’t I so smart tone. Don’t worry, I figured out how much I didn’t know pretty quickly.
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All kids want to feel like they have power over their lives. All adults want to […]