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P is for Penis
Photography by Mary Allison Tierney “Boys are better than girls because they have penises,” my four-year-old-son Bryce announced during breakfast one morning. Glaring at his two- year-old-sister, he...
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T is for Temper
Photography by Mary Allison Tierney I was eavesdropping at the bus stop, on kids waiting to go to elementary school: “Max got a stop. He got like so mad, coz coz Sebastian flushed his hat,” says the...
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Father’s Day
“Boo!” my ten-year old screamed as she leaped from behind the concrete staircase. Landing in the middle of the sidewalk, she grinned and spread her arms to block me, my three siblings and our...
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Triggers
Trigger: an act or event that serves as a stimulus and initiates or precipitates a reaction or series of reactions. My friend, Nancy, warned me about triggers while I was in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico,...
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Seconds Matter
By the time the third tire blew we were somewhere near Preston and we spun twice across two lanes of traffic. Three of us were in Andy’s Fiat Panda, a two-door hatchback. Andy was driving, J was in...
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To Bribe or Not to Bribe?
Parenting is obviously a delicate balance, a dance even, between bribing and threatening our kids to do what we want them to do. My mother once bribed, er, encouraged my son with $5 for each ‘A’ on...
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The bathroom is alive with the sound of music
The bathroom is alive with the sound of music at 6 a.m. on a Sunday morning. I hear my five-year-old daughter’s voice coming from the bathroom attached to our master bedroom. The house is dark and she...
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Of Soap and Tears
It was a tough summer for my parents. At the tender age of eight, I had picked up some colorful vocabulary at day camp. I routinely wowed them in the kitchen with four-letter epithets, only to have my...
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Cooking with Petite
We are delighted to welcome a previous member of Write On Mamas, Tamar McLachlan, who moved to live in Italy and now runs luxury stays in the beautiful countryside in Piemonte as well as writing and...
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My Son - Going His Own Way
My son, Tom, has always been a bit of a handful. Never one to follow the crowd, he ploughs his own very muddy and individual furrow. But especially, when it comes to school, he has been a complete...
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