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Danielle Bean

Danielle Bean
Danielle Bean, a mother of eight, is web editor of Faith & Family Live! and senior editor of Faith & Family magazine. She is author of My Cup of Tea: Musings of...
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Rachel Balducci

Rachel Balducci
Rachel Balducci is married to Paul and together they are the parents of five lively boys. Besides being a mom, she is also a writer and a newspaper columnist for...
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Lisa Hendey

Lisa Hendey
Lisa Hendey is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com, a Catholic web site focusing on the Catholic faith, Catholic parenting and family life, and Catholic cultural...
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Arwen Mosher

Arwen Mosher
Arwen Mosher has been blogging since 2004. She lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan, their toddler daughter Camilla, and their baby son Blaise....
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Rebecca Teti

Rebecca Teti
Rebecca Teti has been married to Dennis for 15 years, with four children (3 boys, 1 girl) who -- like yours no doubt -- are pious and kind, gorgeous, and can spin...
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Sr. Patricia Proctor, OSC

Sr. Patricia Proctor, OSC
Sr. Patricia is a Poor Clare nun living in community at the Poor Clare Monastery in Spokane Washington. She is a best-selling author of the "101 Inspirational Stories"...
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Sarah Reinhard

Sarah Reinhard
If Sarah Reinhard isn’t off hiding somewhere with a good book, chances are she’s chasing a toddler or a Jack Russell terrier (or sleeping, because every mom...
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Talk to Me, Kid

How has your child surprised you?

I’m the oldest of six children, so I was around when my five younger siblings were babies and toddlers.  I thought I was paying attention, but I guess I wasn’t, because a huge amount of the development of my little ones is completely new to me.

I remember my brothers and sisters learning to talk.  They talked a lot.  Nevertheless, observing my daughter’s verbal development over the past eighteen months,... READ MORE 


Due Punishment

http://www.visualpuns.net/BAT%20MAN%20AND%20ROBIN.htm

In “Pun For The Ages,” Joseph Tartovsky reflects on the nature and history of the pun.

(The essay also contains some terrible examples.)

I confess I love puns, though they are supposed to be the world’s lowest form of humor.

I also think word play is a great device for expanding vocabulary without kids knowing what you’re up to. At our family dinner table growing up, if anyone punned, the rest of... READ MORE 


‘Banished’ Words

Words and phrases we're tired of hearing

I love words.

So you can imagine my fascination with Lake Superior State University‘s 2009 List of Banished Words.

What did these words and phrases do to deserve “banishment”?

Nothing, really. They’ve only been overused to the point where some self-appointed “word watchers” have voted them out.

Making the list of overused and therefore banished words this year are environmental buzzwords like “green,”... READ MORE 


Word Love

My devotion to language

Language is an incredible thing.

I’ve thought so for as long as I can remember.  I think my devotion to A Child’s Garden of Verses and the poetry of A.A. Milne began almost at birth.  My mother tells a story of a barely two-year-old me describing my sister as she learned to crawl: “She’s eating the meadow flowers!”

When I first discovered Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” some years later, I had to memorize... READ MORE 


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