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Kids’ Food Allergies are Skyrocketing. BUT WHY?
My child’s father and I engage in frequent spirited debates. Some might call them squabbles. Or something midway between debates and squabbles… Can I coin the new term “squabate?” Our most recent squabate sprang forth from an article that I read in the San Francisco Chronicle. Apparently, a woman let her four-year-old eat a peanut butter sandwich in the front seat of a Target shopping cart, leading to an all-out mommy war in the comments section of a New York parenting blog. The majority of moms were chastising this woman for her insensitivity toward other children with nut allergies who might have used that cart after her. They claimed that…
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Don’t Believe your Next Door App… The World is LESS Dangerous TODAY than EVER Before
When we become moms, we tend to worry more about the dangers of the world and how this might affect our children. We pay more attention to all the bad news and convince ourselves that our society is scarier than ever… And now there’s a handy app to provide real-time confirmation bias! In this article, Joel Stein of The LA Times shares his thoughts on Next Door, and it’s ability to turn people into a bunch of nosy, paranoid Gladys Kravitz’s. If you haven’t already heard of Next Door, it’s an app that serves as a virtual bulletin board and neighborhood watch that’s specific to its user’s geographical area. You…
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What does it REALLY Cost to Raise Them?
We’ve all heard the nightmarish inflated statistics. A recycled version of the same old clickbait that comes out each year: “It costs $500,000 to raise a child from birth to eighteen years of age, not including college expenses!” They’ll put you in the poorhouse before they’re even walking, they all say… It’s enough to send us single mamas running for the hills! Well, it’s not quite that terrifying, but according to the most recent report by the United States Department of Agriculture (latest released January 2017), it costs a middle class family in the United States an average of $233,610 to raise a child who was born in 2015…