“Racism”, Young Children, and Obama: Lessons Learned in Hawaii

There’s been a lot of focus on Hawaii lately, since Barack Obama was raised here. It’s been very exciting for our little outpost way out on the end of the country to see a native son go so far in the world. My own claim to fame was that, when I lived on Oahu, I more »

More Halloween Stuff

Daddy Dan continues his series, “Ask the Bloggers”, with a question about scary Halloween stories. I’ve included a story about a silly thing my oldest did that scared the heck out of me. Check it out here. And I’ve been getting more questions about how to handle scary Halloween stuff with our youngest ones. It’s more »

Shhh…It’s “Confidential”!

I have all sorts of grand hopes and plans for the future of BabyShrink. But since I’m juggling my clinical practice, plus a consulting/management business, AND three young children (not to mention Mr. Dr. BabyShrink), my time is limited. I figure all I need is an extra 6 or 7 hours in every day to more »

Hope for Postpartum Depression: A Podcast

Here at BabyShrink, I get emailed questions from all over the world. Many of these make it onto the site; questions about potty training, TV-watching, and poop-smearing (which is my most-read post, if you can believe it!) But there are other questions; questions too pained and personal to be published. Questions from mothers desperate about more »

Check Me Out on DaddyDan.net!

My blogger friend Daddy Dan has started a new feature; he’s polling a bunch of us Mommy, Daddy, and advice-giving bloggers about all sorts of topics. The first installment is today. As you’ve seen, I don’t want to get TOO deeply into politics here, but he gave me my chance at outlining some of the more »

Halloween and Young Children: What’s TOO scary?

Reader Fran in Massachusetts wrote recently, asking an interesting question about her 3-year-old son, who has an unusual request for a Halloween costume. He wants to be Cruella de Vil this year. Fran’s not worried about the gender thing; she knows that it’s perfectly fine for a 3-year-old boy to dress up in a female more »