Parenting in the Kidwest
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The Flu, and Farewell
My 4-year-old has the flu, and it’s your fault. You might protest: “But Riane, how could it be my fault? We’ve never even met!”...
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Book Buddy
Over the past several months, I’ve been on book tour promoting my new book, Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance. I’ve done several local...
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New Year’s Resolutions for Parents
Making New Year’s resolutions is futile: No matter how optimistic we are about implementing positive changes in our lives on January 1st, the statistics...
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The Science of Sleep
As someone who deals with occasional bouts of insomnia, I’ve read a lot of the literature (by literature, of course, I mean “message boards...
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Future Goals
As the story goes, when I was five or six, I went around explaining to adults that I wanted to be three things when...
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Kid Person
I’ve always been a kid person. Even before I had my own child, I’ve always just been one of those people who finds kids...
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Kid in the Kitchen
My daughter loves to help me cook. Granted, just as when she wants to “help” clean the house, or work on the computer, or...
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Soccer Goals
I was a serious athlete growing up, but I never played soccer. Not even as a little kid. Soccer is the one sport I...
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Skating Through Life
There’s a childhood photo of me where I’m wearing black, elastic biker shorts with neon zig-zags on the sides (it was the ‘90s), an...
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Life with a Threenager
My three-year-old daughter is a delight: she’s smart, funny and deeply empathetic. She loves letters and numbers and everything related to Frozen; she’s an...