Parenting in the Kidwest

The Flu, and Farewell 

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!”...

Book Buddy

Over the past several months, I’ve been on book tour promoting my new book, Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance. I’ve done several local...

New Year’s Resolutions for Parents 

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...

The Science of Sleep

As someone who deals with occasional bouts of insomnia, I’ve read a lot of the literature (by literature, of course, I mean “message boards...

Future Goals

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

Kid Person 

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...

Kid in the Kitchen 

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

Soccer Goals 

I was a serious athlete growing up, but I never played soccer. Not even as a little kid. Soccer is the one sport I...

Skating Through Life 

There’s a childhood photo of me where I’m wearing black, elastic biker shorts with neon zig-zags on the sides (it was the ‘90s), an...

Life with a Threenager 

My three-year-old daughter is a delight: she’s smart, funny and deeply empathetic. She loves letters and numbers and everything related to Frozen; she’s an...

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