Nurshable

August 2012

  • What Do You Mean No Tigers Will Eat Me?

    Why do babies cry when we put them down? What do you mean? Of COURSE babies cry when you put them down. You see.. At the beginning of mankind the world was a very different place. Tigers and bears and… Continue reading

  • Learning to Self Soothe (WIO)

    Dear Middlechild, This past week you’ve been unhappy in the middle of the night, waking up and wanting to come into our bed. You have had the “ick” but also you have been going through a bit of sleep regression. … Continue reading

  • Commitment

    Dear Daughter, Before your father I was married to another man. It did not work out. My ex husband and your father have taught me about commitment through what each one gave and could not give. Your father and I… Continue reading

  • Growing Up Broken

    Dear Kids, When I was five, just about a month before my sixth birthday, I broke. It was the Friday before Easter, and my grandmother Millie was visiting. We were sitting on the old wooden steps in front of my… Continue reading

  • Independent of Comparison

    Dear Daughter, I am probably going to write quite a bit to you about self acceptance and love. It is something that I struggle with, and something that I hope to be able to pass to you as a gift.… Continue reading

  • Fever Hot

    Dear Middlechild, Last night at four AM you woke crying for a drink of water. Your skin burned against mine as I kissed your forehead. You drank your water and laid close talking to me in your little baby voice,… Continue reading

  • Rotten Day

    Dear Kids, Today was a rotten day. A terrible rotten day, actually. Not the type of “bad” day where you find out a loved one has cancer or that your dog died. But a lethargic unfun blah day. Eldest, you… Continue reading

  • If You Love Her, Shut Up.

    Dear Friends and Family Members, If you love my daughter, or if you love your daughter, or if you love any little girl.. Shut up. Stop talking about your body as though it is ugly. Stop talking about your too-big… Continue reading

  • The Guilt of Doing What We Feel is Right

    Dear Daughter, I have started to realize a theme in my writings to you. I write a lot about the guilt of overcoming what I am told by pop-culture parenting and “the old way”, and doing what I feel is… Continue reading

  • The Intersection of Want and Need

    Dear Two Year Old MiddleChild aka Mr. McScreamingScreechyPants, Here we are at the intersection of Want and Need. As a baby your “wants” and your needs” are one and the same and largely simple in their nature. Then you reach… Continue reading