Parenting Sites 411

Welcome back to my weekly You Need to Read feature here at Parenting Sites 411!  These are the blog posts that caught my attention for one reason or another this last week.  For that reason, I think you need to read these posts and I hope you’ll agree with me.

• “Why kids should always get cookies whenever they ask for them” by moosh in indy.   Yep, yet another hilariously embarrassing post from poor Casey.
• “Fishy conundrum” from Purple is a Fruit.  What do you do in this situation?  Has anyone been here before?
• “Autopilot” from Untangling Knots.  Unfortunately, this here is subject matter that I know all too well and I think she does a wonderfully sensitive job of covering it here.
• “That’s Hott” from amalah.  She details a variety of subjects, the state of construction in her home, her hotel getaway with her husband (where sleep wasn’t so much on the menu) (and not for the reason you’re thinking, you dirty mind!) and some AWESOME progress from her son.
• “The chia and the tyrant” from sweet | salty.  I love her comparisons of her active and energetic (and opinionated) toddler with her sleeping, docile and angelic infant.  How true it is!
• “ladies and germs” from house of h.  Yep, this one is all about ME!  Well, me and her website.  She recently made the move to a self-hosted blog and let me help her with the design.  Yay!
• “I’ll race ya” from Oops!  Did I say that out loud?.  How do you talk to a toddler about race and racism?  Do you even need to?  This is a very interesting discussion.
• “To ‘No Follow’ or not to ‘No Follow’” by miss zoot.  Full of web-geekery and discussion about Frosty Floats, this raises an interesting discussion about crediting your commenters.  Well, interesting if you’re ME at least.
• “Rounding the Bases” by Mom’s Daily Dose.  I love this post about wanting to get pregnant with a second child and being unable (or just having a really hard time) getting pregnant and being jealous of those other people who ARE getting pregnant… pretty much everything she says I’ve felt and thought.
• “Albany” by a little pregnant.  We end with this absolutely heartbreaking post from Julie.  She makes it so real, that my heart aches at the thought.

Seeing as how this week’s list is easily twice the size of last week’s list, this is more than enough to keep you busy while you’re trying not to work today or give you a good reading list for the lazy weekend afternoons.  As if we have those anymore now that we have children.  Ha!  That’s a good one…