Alison Lee's Blog, page 11
April 25, 2017
The Unexpected Path to Motherhood
First, swear you’ll never be one, laugh drunkenly, and swig your fourth glass of wine. Meet the love of your life, marry, and discuss how many children you’re going to have, jokingly. Laugh heartily and live your glorious newlywed life. Sleep in on weekends, make sweet love, and go for brunch at your favorite hangout. Watch […]
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April 18, 2017
Ditch the Piggy Bank, Get a Bank Account
“We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to […]
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April 11, 2017
10 Tips for Surviving and Thriving in the First Days with Newborn Twins
Leaving the hospital with my twins was an incredible moment I will never forget. After an IVF conception, complications and a 12-day stay in the NICU, we were so ready to become a family properly. Though we’d been preparing all along, it was still a shock getting home and having two tiny babies to care for. […]
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April 4, 2017
The Twin Parenting Advice I Couldn’t Follow
When my twins first arrived, I was hell-bent on keeping them on the same schedule. After all, that was the sage advice everyone with multiples gave me: one up, both up; one down, both down. So I tried. Believe me when I tell you how very hard I tried. I wanted this to work desperately, […]
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March 28, 2017
Three to Six
One year ago we were an average family. We had three children ages 8, 6, and 2 and we were busy with the average family things like dance lessons, scouts, sports, and homework. I was a busy but happy mom of three kids feeling content with where my life was at the moment. Looking back, […]
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March 21, 2017
Life with Twins and Triplets, the Toddler to Tween Years Book Cover Reveal
When we started working on our second book, Multiples Illuminated: Life with Twins and Triplets, the Toddler to Tween Years, the first thing we did was to work with our talented designer on our book cover. Most authors work on the manuscript first, then the book cover. Because we knew the kind of stories we […]
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Life with Twins and Triplets, the Toddler to Twin Years Book Cover Reveal
When we started working on our second book, Multiples Illuminated: Life with Twins and Triplets, the Toddler to Twin Years, the first thing we did was to work with our talented designer on our book cover. Most authors work on the manuscript first, then the book cover. Because we knew the kind of stories we […]
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March 14, 2017
The Blessing of a Bond
I gave birth to fraternal twins, a boy, and girl, back in 1996. When we learned that our son, Josh, was severely autistic, the joy of having multiples was dashed in a single diagnosis. But I was so overwhelmed in the first few months of our crisis that I didn’t mourn our loss. In those […]
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March 10, 2017
Driving While Parenting Twins
It strikes me as odd that the federal government has yet to cite the dangers of driving-while-parenting—parenting twins in particular. Common sense, highway accident rates, and brain science have examined the lethalities of drinking and driving, texting while driving, and mobile phone use while driving—but somehow, the ever-more-dangerous hazards of driving while parenting somehow remains […]
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March 7, 2017
How NOT to Potty Train Twins
I had this genius idea a month ago. A well-intentioned friend told me about how she’d potty-trained her two boys, now four and six-years-old with this three-day training method. She then proceeded to gift me with her entire vast collection of little plastic toddler potties, including one that sings when you go. “This method works best […]
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