So I bring my kids to the set when I make videos where I sing about lunchboxes, and then I write blog
posts about my kids and lunch packing.
After
posting about kids and food nonstop since late May — even through family vacations (and you can bet everyone loved that)-- I'm taking Labor Day off!
I am sharing because I have received so many questions about why I don't
post about my kids (and in anticipation of requests to share a photo of new baby).
In fact, I don't even
post about my kids on my own personal social media accounts as this was a decision my husband and I made for our family after a lot of thought and research.
Should they have access to
posts about your kids?
Child expert Dr. Michael Rich said via Parents, moms and dads should learn to practice caution when
posting about their kids on social media.
Just browsing through
your post about kids emotions and you provide great tips to helping them cope with their feelings.
i've just
posted about my kids chore chart, and will be posting about my command center next week
Not exact matches
Just think
about what actually makes
kids «cool» in high school, a recent PsyBlog
post urges readers.
The company is running a promotion closer to November in which it will encourage users to take their
kids along when they hit the polls on Election Day, and
post «stories» (Winnie's version of Yelp reviews)
about their experiences.
To learn more
about how Taseea Cruz started Ivy
Kids LLC with tips
about starting a home - based business for stay - at - home moms, you can read a guest
post she shared on the blog here.
I talked
about this in a recent
post, The Gospel According to Lady Gaga, regarding how Christian communities should take a more personal and active interest in protecting gay
kids from being bullied in schools.
We go to church, we participate in leadership meetings to shape the conversations of our communities, we pray for our friends, we make meals, I write
posts and articles and books
about God, we wash our minivans, we set up the sprinkler for the neighbourhood
kids and hand out freezies to hopeful hands, we go to work, we talk
about the people we know.
One
kid makes one video, and it's such a huge threat to some of the folks
posting here... Says a lot
about your faith, that it can be so easily shaken.
You think they want bunch of
posts about how the commander in chimp let four U.S. Ambassadors die, or how he tanked our economy, or how he's giving a free pass to n1gger
kids to misbehave in schools across the country?
Several years ago we wrote a blog
post (and a chapter in our travel book)
about traveling with
kids and we're thinking
about writing an updated version with more guidelines and tips that we've picked up as our crew has grown.
I agree with you that salt & pepper are like oxygen... you don't count it Alicia S recently
posted... All Dad's Should Write a Book
about their
Kids!
... a story
about how we realized that one day we could actually be related and hang out even more... mwahahahahaha... But, our
kids usually read these
posts, and we figured they'd be shocked, outraged and utterly embarrassed if we told you how we planned to leverage their futures for our own self - serving gains.)
I've spent so much of my journey focused on my own nutrition and training, but because so many mommies reach out to me for help with their own
kids & family I figured it was
about time to expand my
posts, stories, and recipes even more.
Last time I
posted about how my
kids were so grateful to you....
I don't know what it says
about me because I skip through a
post about peanut butter cookies to look at photos of your
kid (s), but I do.
My friends and I were just talking
about doing an Easter egg hunt for the neighborhood
kids, and then I saw your
post tonight.
The idea of writing a
post about what I'm feeding my
kids these days has been swirling around in my brain for the past few months, until I realized it'd be
about a paragraph long.
I have
posted before
about this infatuation and how Gracie won Kellogg's Rice Krispies contest for creative
kids with her Butterbeer bites.
I almost never
post replies, but the beautiful Green Kitchen Stories
post about installing kindness in our
kids and then your reaction with this link really touched my hearth.
A cute little box containing six chocolates arrived in the
post accompanied by a leaflet
about chocolate parties for
kids.
As I mentioned in this
post about running a half - marathon, my husband and I drink tart cherry juice two times each day to help with recovery from our long runs, and our
kids love it when we add the tart cherry concentrate to smoothies.
Plus, my blog
post about it features two of the coolest
kids!
We have written
posts on here
about helping
kids make healthier choices or way to get them on board, but what it really comes down to for me is this: I am in charge!
I have
posted numerous times
about the need to keep our
kids safe when using Internet connected devices.
Remember the
post I wrote recently
about how it is sometimes hard to get the
kids out of the house?
Which brought to mind a GREAT
post on the subject over at Rage Against the Minivan: Parents Please Educate Your
Kids About Adoption so Mine Don't Have To.
I still have not been across the pond with my
kids, but this wonderful guest
post about an Eastern European road trip with
kids from Keryn at Walking On Travels has inspired me to make sure it happens sooner rather than later.
A Baby on Board is the lovely blog of Gillian Crawshaw, a mom of 2
kids with lots of awesome
posts and information all
about raising babies.
According to The Citizen Times, in response to a Facebook
post about a woman named Davyne Dial who manages a local radio station, a former coworker of Dial's named Jacquelyn Hammond left a comment that read, «I didn't get drunk and kill my
kid.»
Honey B., in her
post Childbirth: Hollywood's Take, wrote that after year of watching A Baby Story, 18
Kids and Counting, Knocked Up, Four Christmases, etc., she realized how much of what she thought she knew
about childbirth was based on TV.
: - / I know your
kids are young enough that you maybe haven't thought much
about kids reading your
posts; you probably feel you're writing for parents.
I have been thinking of writing a
post about the way that fear and anxiety can spiral out of control in strange ways in
kids, but I'm struggling with how to tell it without revealing too much too.
Relatedly awesome, if you join the free Fandango VIP program, among the various perks is the ability to refund or exchange tickets all the way up until
posted show time — perfect for those unfortunate days when one of your
kids gets sick right as you're
about to head out the door (#beenthere).
Eve Vawter «s
post earlier this week
about all the various things her
kids have taken away from her got me thinking
about all the random shit I do manage to find around the house.
In my
post on how to talk to
kids about pornography, I shared these excellent general resources: The Joy of Sex, Our Bodies Ourselves, It's Perfectly Normal.
So, we will take this with a grain of salt because it is from Reddit and I haven't seen any police stories
about this, but a stay - at - home dad
posted that he was minding his own business, playing with his two
kids at a park, when the cops handcuffed him and detained him on the curb because he looked «suspicious.»
Back in 2009, when I started STFU, Parents, there were no articles or blog
posts about how parents use social media, what kind of impact these attitudes and user mechanisms had on their
kids (or their friends), or what we could learn from social media etiquette, including the benefits of curbing certain types of
posting behavior.
As I mentioned in the first
post on how to talk to
kids about pornography, I'm thrilled that former regular contributor Amy Cody (Parent Education Manager at Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts) is generously returning to answer these important questions.
Today I'm presenting the second in a series of
posts, following reader queries
about educating
kids about sex.
I forgot to add in my
post about giving
kids the gift of experiences, not just stuff.
So, I'm delighted to share this guest
post about visiting the beautiful city of Vancouver with toddlers and
kids in tow!
Think
about it... what would your
kids think if they were to scroll through each and every
post or image that you have shared on social media?
I also completely agree with Arwyn — it's a double - standard, either we're neglecting our
kids by doing anything other than paying attention to them all the time, or (as Her bad Mother recently experienced and
posted about) we're looked down upon as a waste of humanity b / c we're taking care of our children.
Ok, all you holier - than - thou moms who just got on their soap box to preach
about the ill - effects of television let me reassure you that my
kids only watch what I allow them (and been pre-screened by me) and only for the recommended 2 hours a day (contrary to what you may have read in my What Not To Say To SAHM
post).