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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). 
A rare foto in which all six Spencers face the camera! by Charles Harris
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No, THIS Is the Week's Lighten-Up-and-Eat-a-Cookie Award!!August 14, 2008
This week's true Lighten-Up-and-Eat-a-Cookie Award is related to the one bestowed yesterday. Only worse.
It goes to the moms--and the spa salon operators who enable them in the name of making a buck--who variously believe that: * Females should begin waxing body hair at 6 (no typo, SIX) * Eight is not too young to have brows shaped...or a bikini wax * Or for that matter 10-and 12-year-olds should be going anywhere near hot wax. Beware the new "trend" inching inland from the coasts. Twenty percent of bikini waxes at a Beverly Hills spa are for the 10-to-12 set. "For waxing, 12 is the new normal," we're told. I thought it was comical when my preteen was begging for highlights. (Just last night, in fact, for which I blame unfettered access to cable here at the beach.) Momfidence is... ...Showing daughters free, safe, and age-appropriate ways to feel good about themselves and how they look. ...And then, at puberty, showing them tweezers and a razor. |
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