Category Archives: The Kiddo

a hug, and a kiss, and some snuggles

By a. sprout | Published: October 22, 2011
My throat feels like sandpaper, all closed up and miserable.  I am sick, and I don’t care.  After months, maybe a year when you figure in pregnancy, M has decided I’m OK again.  It just sort of crept up on me.  I don’t know if it is that she has somehow managed to get over [...]
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Parenting, is hard some days.

By a. sprout | Published: October 4, 2011
Today I encountered what I would consider to be on my list of ‘shit I never want to have to deal with as a parent but know I will’.  Today I was told that my kid was teasing another kid for being different.  I was told that my kid was teasing another kid because of [...]
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Bumped

By a. sprout | Published: August 27, 2011
This girl, sometimes she has so much fear.  She shakes at public restrooms, her fear of the auto-flusher, or the noise of high water pressure causing her to seize up, to just wait until she gets home.  At the fair, lured by the pretty butterflies we paid our six dollars and went in, then she [...]
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Beautiful

By a. sprout | Published: August 26, 2011
Awhile back my sister-in-law posted on Facebook an article by Lisa Bloom’s from Huff Post.  I had a reaction I didn’t expect to have.  I agree with her points wholeheartedly, except, I don’t.  In general I agree that girls need to hear that they are smart.  I agree that they need to be recognized for [...]
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