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Momfidence! cheers on commonsense parenting and sighs at the rest. How to worry less, wing it more. A.k.a. parenting by the seat of my mid-rise mom jeans.
About Paula SpencerI'm the author of Momfidence! An Oreo Never Killed Anybody and Other Secrets of Happier Parenting, and a mom of four in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (where you can't even buy Oreos at the two wholesome groceries nearest to my home). 
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This Week's Lighten-Up-and-Eat-a-Cookie AwardAugust 13, 2008
This week's Lighten-Up-and-Eat-a-Cookie Award goes to the retailers and manufacturers pushing the line, "Seven is the new fourteen."
Seven is not the new 14 or the old 14. Seven is seven. Seven-year-olds may watch TV shows about 14-year-old pop-stars and starlets, but this does not change their chronological age. Or maturity level. It need not transform their wardrobes, either. Notice in this article a market-research firm also defines "tween" as "seven-to-12-year olds.' What do seven year olds (second or third grade) have in common with 12-year-olds (sixth or seventh grade...middle school)? Not that much developmentally, if you ask me. |
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