Reading YA as a mom has been really eye opening. Books I would have taken for granted before Baby Chick, probably even love, I now see very differently. I’m more aware of the unhealthy messages in fiction than I ever was when it was just myself. I think about this a lot, actually. However, I […]
Last year I wrote a post about my beliefs on censorship when raising a child. At the time Baby Chick was 13 years old. She was at an age where I was trying to figure out how to handle a daughter on the cusp of maturity, too old for early readers, but possibly too young […]
As a parent, I frequently think about how I should monitor and censor my daughter’s media intake. I ask myself, at nearly 14 years old, what should be allowed and what shouldn’t? Growing up my mother never really monitored the books that I was interested in. Looking back, as an adult, I recognize where some […]
Today, for the first time, I allowed my daughter to walk with her friends (in a group) to the gas station up the road. I’m sure there are people out there who would shrug like it’s no big deal, and probably people who think I’m nuts. I generally fall into the second category. She’s […]
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