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Cheesecake

My family loves cheesecake (the edible, dessert kind. I have no wish to know what my boys think of the other kind). Birthday cakes are usually cheesecakes around here, which is fine with me because they require a lot less decorating. All of my children can make cheesecakes. Note–”children” equals “boys.” From scratch. They have [...]

The Mother’s Guide to Men’s Restroom Etiquette

Dear Abby, Thursday August 13. Moms write in worried about sending their 7 year old sons into men’s bathrooms alone. Tone of each letter talks about how anything can and does happen to these poor children. Suggestions range from two way radios, to going into said bathroom to make sure it’s empty, to standing outside  [...]

Boys and Girls ARE Different. TRUST Me.

When I was a young mother, I was, as I have often noted, the product of my feminist education in the late 70s and early 80s. I was, essentially, brainwashed by the reigning paradigm–there was nothing intrinsically different between the male and female brain. Any performance differences were  a result of culturalization, nothing more. Paradigms [...]

Hugs

I still remember one day. It’s engraved on my cortex. The Grouch was about 2, I’d guess. He toddled up to me and gave me a great big hug. Of his own accord. Without being embarrassed about it or harassed into it. It’s etched in my memory because it may well have been the last [...]

Why do boys have that aimer-thingy, if they aren’t going to use it?

I have four boys. They share two bathrooms.

And I have two bathroom floors that need to be replaced.

Now, I’m a girl, and I don’t have a handy-dandy aimer thingy. But it would seem, wouldn’t it, that they should be able to AIM with it?