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No good deed goes unpunished

By Jodi Cohen | Published: February 15, 2010
On vacation, I noticed an awesome mom sheparding five kids between the pool and the beach and back again all day long.  She was totally on it.  Strict, but efficient.  At the end of the day, when she was disciplining the youngest one, another mother approached her and started throwing a fit.  It turns out [...]
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Diagnosing Developmental Delays in Other People’s Children

By Jodi Cohen | Published: February 10, 2010
We all love our friends and want to be there for them.  Sometimes this can take the form of feeling it is our duty to tell them if we observe concerning behavior in their child – like walking on tip toes, or avoiding eye contact or lack of impulse control. We somehow fear that they [...]
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Be careful about over-sharing

By Jodi Cohen | Published: January 28, 2010
  When we have a bad day or a bad parenting moment, many of us share it with our friends.  We regale them in our worst moments to vent, get it off our chest and have someone tell us that it really isn’t that bad. But we forget that those intimate details can linger in [...]
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Swine Flu Hysteria

By Jodi Cohen | Published: November 1, 2009
It’s official. Swine flu hysteria has contaminated me. On Tuesday, my daughter’s school called because she had a temperature of 99.2 degrees. We rushed to pick her up, filled her with Tylenol and fluids and while she slept peacefully, I was frantically googling “swine flu symptoms.” She was coughing a bit, which is symptom. While [...]
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