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My 4-year-old has the flu, and it’s your fault. You might protest: “But Riane, how could it be my fault? We’ve never even met!”...

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New Year’s Resolutions for Parents

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Making New Year’s resolutions is futile: No matter how optimistic we are about implementing positive changes in our lives on January 1st, the statistics...

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Future Goals

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As the story goes, when I was five or six, I went around explaining to adults that I wanted to be three things when...

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I’ve always been a kid person. Even before I had my own child, I’ve always just been one of those people who finds kids...

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Kid in the Kitchen

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My daughter loves to help me cook. Granted, just as when she wants to “help” clean the house, or work on the computer, or...

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Mistakes Were Made

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I’ve made a lot of mistakes in the three years I’ve been a parent. I’ve let a bag of breast milk go bad, and...

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Kid Catwalk

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I have been watching the FX series “The Assassination of Gianni Versace” lately. When it’s not about assassination, it’s about Versace as a genius...

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Pure Genius

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Before I was a parent, I used to have a good idea of what a genius was. Or at least, a general idea. A...

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The Flu, and Farewell

New Year’s Resolutions for Parents

Future Goals

Kid Person

Kid in the Kitchen

Mistakes Were Made

Kid Catwalk

Pure Genius

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