Tag Archives | Ayelet Waldman
Oh, Ye Olde Double Standard! (Or: Read Amy Sohn on Why Go the F**K to Sleep Wasn’t Written by a Woman)

Oh, Ye Olde Double Standard! (Or: Read Amy Sohn on Why Go the F**K to Sleep Wasn’t Written by a Woman)

By on June 24, 2011 in Children

So you’ve probably already heard of Go the F**K to Sleep, written by Adam Mansbach, a tired new dad who–bingo!–couldn’t get his kid to sleep.  Chances are, you either love it or hate it. Either way, you can’t ignore it–the book’s become a runaway hit and was a New York Times bestseller before it even [...]

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Why Don’t We Accept More Help?

By on April 21, 2011 in Children, Home and Work

My friend Monsignor wrote after my last post and asked why we crazy Boulderites don’t accept more help.  Specifically, he wanted to know why it was so terrible in these parts to hire a nanny or use a sitter more than a few hours a week? (For the record, Boulder can be a little crazy [...]

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Wanna Join My Tribe?

By on April 15, 2011 in Other, Self

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do.  With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation. Margaret Mead, anthropologist I chanced across this quote in a book called The World’s Best Advice from the World’s Wisest Women, by BJ [...]

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