Bakersfield Mom

The cover story in last week’s Time Magazine is all about “why attachment parenting drives some mothers to extremes — and how Dr. Bill Sears became their guru.” That is the article’s subtitle. All I can say, somewhat hopefully, is “at last.”

Because my next book, due out in the fall, contains a chapter on attachment parenting’s destructive propaganda, I have done considerable research of late on the subject. For those of you who are not familiar with this latest parenting trend, attachment parenting is all about parents and children sleeping together, mothers “wearing” their infants (constantly carrying them around in slings), breastfeeding these same children until they are 2 or 3, and generally centering their lives on their kids in perpetuity.  Continue reading →

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Q: My boyfriend has been divorced for four years. We have lived together for two years. He has three kids, ages 5, 7 and 9. His ex-mother-in-law takes care of his kids when they are not with their mother, which is the majority of the time. The evening visits are usually at the ex-mother-in-law’s home. The ex just adopted two more kids — an 8-month-old and a 2-year-old. These kids are also at the ex-mother-in-law’s home and are now bonding with my boyfriend’s children. His ex is also in and out of this house while he is there. He knows this set-up makes me uncomfortable. Should I accept? Or should he change?  Continue reading →

I know! I’ve been talking about this giveaway for days! Well, here it is!

One lucky winner will get to enter the Bakersfield Color Me Rad 5k on June 30, 2012 for FREE! That saves you $45!  Continue reading →

As we’re getting ready to leave Tuesday morning, I notice what appears to be body parts hanging off my bedroom ceiling.

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So another Mother’s Day has come and gone, and the crime scene crew has cleaned up the mess after the kids made breakfast, right?

Funny how a meal consisting entirely of two pieces of burnt toast and an overcooked egg can require 13 bowls, two pots and six plates to pull off, all of which will live indefinitely on the kitchen counter until the professional cleaning crew arrives with industrial strength solvents to remove the carbonized deposits.  Continue reading →

These are busy days in most households with school-age children:  Academic years are coming to a close, finals and graduations are right around the corner.  So it was no surprise that National Teacher Day, which was May 8, came and went without notice or fanfare in our family.  Continue reading →

This isn’t new, but it is the time of year that we will all be dealing with pesky ants. So here’s one way to kill them dead, dead, dead without insecticides.  Continue reading →