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Let’s say you’re an elementary school teacher and your students’ moms show up to a parent conference in low cut shirts, mini skirts or tight jeans. Would it be appropriate to write a note asking them to dress “discreetly” for conferences instead? A rather humorous letter…
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By Madeline Holler Strollerderby/Babble One of the big news stories in the 80s and 90s was about crack babies -- kids whose addict moms continued using during pregnancy and after. The babies -- crack babies -- were born with varying amounts of the drugs in their systems. Much hand-wringing (and social-servicing, and child removal) ensued. Researchers have been following a significant number of these babies-now-tweens. What's the one thing these researchers have found in the crack babies that truly surprised them? Read More »
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By Madeline Holler Strollerderby/Babble I KNEW we should have gone with Michael! My husband and I had protracted discussions on what we should name our new son. We went with Earl (shut up, it's cute!) for many reasons, including the fact that it wasn't super common. But according to the science, or maybe crazy science, we've predisposed the boy to criminal behavior. Read More »
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Back before I had kids, a friend told me how her parents, who traveled frequently overseas, always booked separate flights. If one of the planes went down, they reasoned, their children wouldn't be orphans. I thought their gloomy scenarios were a little over the top -- did they also always take separate cars? Then I became a parent. Read More »
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By Madeline Holler, Strollerderby No, no, that's not me bragging. It's some other woman. She's showing off her cervix in all its course-of-a-monthly-cycle glory on her blog My Beautiful Cervix. I'm no judge when it comes to an internal organ's appearance, so I wouldn't know a beautiful cervix from an ugly one. (Right now, I'd settle for one stretched open 10 centimeters, but I'm 9 months pregnant.) Still, her daily cervix update is interesting -- she really put a lot into it (word choice, Madeline, word choice). Read More »
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Madeline Holler, Strollerderby So the Straight Talk Express drove off a cliff. And Sarah Palin has been packed off to Alaska to endure a long, cold winter of political career repair. Barack Obama is getting a tour of the White House from George W. Bush. And Joe Biden is kicking back thinking the gaffes will not end but the consquences might. But the rest of us. What about the rest of us? What in the world are we supposed to do now? Read More »
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I sort of can't tell you how
little my marriage means to me. My husband? Oh, he means the world
to me. Our little committed family? Truly, the greatest thing I
have. But the marriage? Enh. I'm just not one to count on paperwork
and words and ceremonies and stuff like that to shape my personal
life....
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