Some days being a mother is standing in the kitchen on tired legs making dessert for children who have asked for it. Some days it’s not reading a bedtime story and instead helping them see all the things they should have seen earlier, when they were supposed to be cleaning […]

Dear Bam Bam, It’s time to wean you. And not only because twice in the last 2 days you have clamped down tight on my nipple with your full set of teeth, just as you were entering dreamland, and bit me so hard it made me cry. It’s not because […]

Dear Bam Bam, Ever suave, sharing drinks with the ladies. ’cause he’s a ladies man, who likes wearing their shoes. Well, you made it. You have moved past babyhood and you are now a little boy. Of course, you’re a little boy who doesn’t yet say more than a handful […]

Bam Bam has recently discovered his boy parts, in that way that makes diaper change time into magical play time. A little boy plays with his ball Parenting books do not tell you that your boy child will, from birth, occasionally have a response that makes a mother feel the […]