My daughter, who is now 9 and no longer believes in the tooth fairy, gave me permission to post this picture. I can’t remember when
Category: Parenting
A Very Big Cat, Quite a Small Tiger, Or My Kid? #HarryPotter
I didn’t read much during the last two weeks of October because I spent every second of my free time turning my 8-year-old daughter into
Harry Potter & The Cursed Child: Why Are the Sins of the Parents Laid Upon the Children?
My daughter needed someone she could talk to about Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the play by Jack Thorne based on a story by
Scaring Children (A Benefit of Books)
Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? How about the evil queen? I was afraid of both. As a kid, I stood up during the
Motherhood: A Gap In The Literary Record & In Public Life
Recently, in the LA Review of Books, Lily Gurton-Wachter discussed her observation that there is a dearth of literature about pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, saying:
What Parents *Should* Do
In Please Stop Parenting My Children, I asked others to stop providing unsolicited parenting advice, especially when that advice related to what books my children
The Misfortune Of Knowing 