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Parenting

Life Continues . . .

March 12, 2012

Hi folks, sorry for my continued absence. The trouble is, the new blog project is nearing completion and I’m busy obsessing about that right now. I have a feeling that once it’s ready, that’s going to be the only place you’ll be able to find me. Hope you’ll join me there when the time comes! [...]

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Confessions of a Struggling Parent

February 22, 2012

I know I said I was taking a break from the blog, but I just wanted to say this. I sometimes worry that I’ve made parenting sounds so fun and easy-breezy, like I’ve got it all figured out and we never have any difficulties here in the Quiring household. So I thought it was important [...]

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Final Thoughts on Being a Stay-at-Home Mom

February 13, 2012

In my last post, I explored my personal journey towards becoming a stay-at-home-mother. The reasons I’ve decided to stay home can be summarized as follows: a) Working outside of the home makes me utterly wretched. First, because waking up to an alarm clock destroys me; and second, because I suck at doing almost anything that [...]

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My Personal Journey Towards Becoming a Stay-at-Home Mom

February 8, 2012

I’ve always kind of expected I would be a stay-at-home mom. First, because my mom stayed home when we were young, so it just seemed natural that I would do the same. And second, because I’ve always been aware — at least on a subconscious level — that I have absolutely no lucrative skills whatsoever.

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In Which I Am Not the Boss of My Kid

February 6, 2012

(This post is a part of Emerging Mummy’s Practices of Mothering Carnival. Hence the title, which is modeled after her way of entitling blog posts, A. A. Milne-style. Tomorrow I’ll return to my series about stay-at-home moms). I’ve stumbled upon a secret to making mothering easier on me. The secret is quite simple: I’ve assigned [...]

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How Does Attachment Parenting Affect Your Marriage?

January 27, 2012

Lately, I’ve been talking a lot about our experiences with attachment parenting. In response my last post, Emily asked this excellent question: So: how does attachment parenting affect your marriage? As opposed to non-attachment parenting, I mean? I know you and Ben have only ever practiced AP so you can’t compare from experience but I’d [...]

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Update on Attachment Parenting

January 23, 2012

I know that only a few months have passed since I first wrote about how we practice the tenets of attachment parenting, but a lot can change in just a few months of early parenthood. I figured I’d offer a bit of an update to let you know how things are going with our five-month-old. [...]

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Travelling with the AP Baby

January 16, 2012

I also have a hunch that the practices of attachment parenting (AP) also helped to ease our traveling experience. I thought I’d go over some of the benefits of traveling with an AP baby — at least in our experience. I’ll just go over the four tenets of attachment parenting I’ve already discussed in previous posts.

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Why We Don’t Get Professional Family Photos

December 20, 2011

Ben and I have established a game plan for when I get tempted to have professional family photos taken. You know the ones I’m talking about. They’re all over Facebook. The ones where the family is holding hands and frolicking through apple orchards in full bloom, or at the lakeside, or in a forest bursting [...]

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Marriage: Still Rad

November 17, 2011

I’ve been meaning to write about Marriage After Baby for a while now. I keep writing it down in my “to blog about” list, but I keep putting it off. This is technically supposed to be a marriage blog, so I keep trying to bring it back to the original topic. But this post just [...]

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