by Deborah Quinn | Feb 15, 2016 | Children, family, growing up, Kids, Parenting, tech life, World Moms Blog
I write for a great blog called WorldMomsBlog, which brings together writers from around the globe to talk about life in their part of the world. Sometimes, as you might imagine, events and issues are culturally specific but more often than not, there are shared...
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 6, 2015 | Children, family, Feminism, Gender, Kids, Parenting, Politics, ranting
Six years ago, I wrote a post about Dr George Tiller, who was murdered by someone who called himself “pro-life.” I’ll leave you a minute to savor the horrific ironies in that statement. And now, six years later, it’s not only the body of a...
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 24, 2014 | Abu Dhabi, birth, Children, family, Kids, Parenting, Travel
This face of joy is Caleb, at one, at Barnegat Light on Long Beach Island. He’d learned to walk at nine months, which meant that despite having a brain about the size of a walnut and a diaper the size of a basketball, he would climb up stairs, stagger along the...
by Deborah Quinn | Mar 25, 2014 | Books, family, Kids, marriage, Parenting, pop culture, ranting
…and when did “parenting” become a verb, anyway? Time was, back in the day, a parent was a noun, and what you did was “raise” kids or “try not to drown” kids or “don’t lose the kids in the mall.” But those...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 25, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, family, growing up, Kids, NaBloPoMo, Parenting, pop culture
For a long time, when my kids were little, I refused to outsource the birthday party: I made a cake, invited the kids over, maybe used the “community space” in our building for games of some kind or another. The year that Liam turned four, when Caleb was...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 17, 2013 | aging, birth, family, HGH, Kids, NaBloPoMo, Parenting, preemies
On the 18th of November, I officially become the mother of a teenager. Which seems weird because I’m only 25. And it’s doubly weird because in some bizarre harmonic convergence, the 17th of November is officially “World Prematurity Day,” a day...
