by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 20, 2014 | for Mind
Dear friends: this post is for you. Whenever you are in a conversation (particularly one on a blog or, better yet, on a news site (where anonymity reigns and civility vanishes)) that involves an accident of some kind (particularly accidents involving children) and...
by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 10, 2014 | for Love
All my life I've been asked questions about my adoption. Today I heard a new one. When I had Jessica (our oldest child) I got a sense, for the first time, of how hard it would be to carry a baby for nine months and then just walk away. A relief, perhaps, and a...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 18, 2014 | for Good
OK, everybody's been slipping on ice. Let's see what these ladies do. After this charming, fatherly intro, a girl proceeds to do a full frontal body plant on the ice. The loving dad chuckles and says: Oh, there goes one! Oh, that's funny! We've all seen the slips and...
by Alison Moore Smith | Nov 15, 2013 | for Fun
Do not start a blog with the intent to give parenting advice when you only have a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old. Unless the title of the blog is: Parenting Advice from Someone Who Knows Virtually Nothing About Parenting
by Alison Moore Smith | Nov 4, 2013 | for Love, for Mind
See the title, above. That is currently the most common homeschooling question I get these days. (And, lest you are wondering, it's almost always from people who don't know my children, so it's not a reflection on them.) This is followed closely in frequency by,...