Category Archives: Your Child Hurt My Child

Working with other moms to solve issues between kids

By Jodi Cohen | Published: August 11, 2010
An economics professor friend mentioned that membership is more valuable if others are excluded. It makes sense if you look at the greek system, wait lists for exclusive country clubs, limited edition gadgets or popular cliques among children (and moms). We always seem to want what we can’t have. My daughter has been dallying with [...]
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How Dare You Hurt My Child!

By Jodi Cohen | Published: April 5, 2010
I never fully appreciated the “mama bear” instinct until the first time another kid pummeled my child in a Mommy and Me class. I recoiled in horror, immediately labeling the other child a terror and spending the rest of the class trying to keep a sizable physical space between him and my daughter. Other parents [...]
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