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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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Yips! A "Puppy Party"November 12, 2008
Oneupmomship alert: Puppy parties! For just $200 to $500 you get a birthday party complete with a litter of four-month-old pups for your guests to play with. O-kay! I threw a Puppy Party once for a birthday...we bought plates and cups with dogs on them, tore pictures from a dog calendar to hang as decorations, played drop-the-milkbone-in-the-bottle and pin-the-tail-on-the-dachshund, wore dog ears and had temporary dog names, had a cake festooned with tiny plastic dogs, and whacked a pinata of a llama who was pretending to be a terrier. Piece of cake. Lots of fun. Way under $500. The line on live puppy parties is supposedly that the pups are later adopted by hosts and guests, but this seems a bit far-fetched to me. I'm sure it's fun for the kids but is it for the pups? Is it different from renting ponies to ride (which seems OTT too)? Feels like another way to make parties more complicated & elaborate than they need to be... Momfidence is... Throwing birthday parties that involve no creatures wilder or more likely to bite than a passel of kids. |
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