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Is it ever ok to tell another mom that something is wrong with her parenting?

By naomi panzer | Published: February 4, 2010
  If your friend doesn’t ask, is it your place to tell her parenting or her child need improvement? Most of the stories we have heard on this topic, do not have happy endings.  Take, for example, our friend Mindy who was devastated when her old friend Jessica gave her an earful about her son, [...]
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In Her Shoes

By naomi panzer | Published: December 15, 2009
I was at a children’s shoe store with my five-year-old daughter on very rainy, cold Saturday afternoon. Usually packed, the store was empty except for the two of us. Then a woman entered the store looking tightly wound, with her son dragging his feet behind her, who looked about six years old. I know we [...]
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Lapses of Judgment

By naomi panzer | Published: November 6, 2009
Two years ago today, three-year-old Madeline McCann was allegedly kidnapped from her hotel room in Portugal while vacationing with her family. This story is all over the news this morning, bringing up the emotions I felt when I first heard it: anger, sadness, resentment, RAGE. All directed at the mother. What were you thinking? How [...]
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