Every Doctor-Mom Needs To Read This Essay
I’m sharing this beautiful and powerful essay by a med school classmate, friend and hero. She writes about her invasive breast cancer diagnosis at age forty- one, and how it changed her life– for the better.
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How do we talk to our kids about Manchester?
Last night, well after I’d tucked her in and gone to bed, Babygirl got up and wandered downstairs. She loves to hang out with Daddy, watching sports, and she’ll fall asleep on the couch. But Hubby was watching CNN coverage of the suicide bombing in …
Cooking with kids: Three ways to encourage a lifetime of healthy food choices
While it’s so important to nurture a love of plant foods in our children, it’s also important not to make eating a stressful event. When kids associate “food” with “anxiety”, bad things happen. I.E. eating disorders like emotional overeating. But we do want to encourage …
Autism post at Harvard Health Blog
Last week, I wrote a post about our personal experience and preferred evidence-based approach to autism behavior therapy over on the Harvard Health Blog, titled: “A Strengths-based Approach to Autism“
We lost our s–t with the stranger who criticized our kid
…and I wrote all about it on the Mothers in Medicine group blog: We lost our s–t with the stranger who criticized our kid
The Truth Behind Happy Cutesy Facebook Posts
It’s school vacation week, and I spent yesterday with the kids. Last night, I posted this on my personal Facebook page: Within moments, someone posted: “Impressive!” Which is totally cool. But I immediately felt bad, like a successful, yet conscientious, con artist. Because while it …
Autism Awareness… and Coolness
I don’t know if it’s an autism thing or what, but many nights Babyboy cannot go to sleep until he’s completed some particular task or project. If we try to pull his attention away from, say, writing a comic strip in Chinese, he ignores us. …
Who will run the world?
Babygirl, leaping from couch to chair to ottoman: “I’m KING of the world and I have amazing superpowers! Look what I can do!” Babyboy, absorbed with a complex Lego creation which encompasses the entire living room rug: “You can’t be king because you’re a girl. …
A Working Mom Faces Monday With Mixed Feelings
It’s the Monday after school vacation week, and here I am boarding my train, bound for downtown and my clinic. Part of me is elated! Doctoring is, weirdly, the easier half of my existence. It’s a challenging and rewarding career for which I feel well-suited, …
Quality American Civics Lesson
“Mama, this is a very pretty march! So many people are wearing pink, and so many signs are pink, and even have kitties on them!” So observed my five-year-old girlie-girl daughter yesterday, Saturday, January 21st. There were marches in support of women’s rights (and everyone’s …