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Monday, May 20, 2013

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Stressed-out summer

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I just read a blog about summer camp for at-risk youth and realized that it meant mine. Because as of today, their third full day of summer vacation, they are at risk of being throttled, pummeled and bound and gagged by none other than their delirious mother, who is truly at the proverbial end of her [...]

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On desert gardening and good parenting

Kirsten Dunlap

I was pregnant when my husband and I, who grew up here, moved back to Arizona. After years of living back east, my one request for our new house was “anything but desert landscaping!” Of course the house we settled on had a brown gravel yard. But with the help of a landscaper friend, we [...]

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Vacation? I think not!

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We’re going on vacation! No, let me clarify that. We are going on a family trip. They are two completely different animals. When I think of vacation, I think of me lying face down on a massage table in the middle of some exotic rain forest, sipping a strategically perched piña colada out of a [...]

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In defense of mothers-in-law

Mother-in-Law relationships, friendships, mothers, Arizona

Mothers-in-law get a bad rap. I didn’t necessarily care about that until I had my third son and saw the decreasing likelihood of being on the right side of this issue in the future. I’ve lost patience with mother-in-law bashing, feel stung by every anti-MIL (as they say on Facebook) utterance and am offended by [...]

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