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All Akimbo: Fighting
By Kim Blakely, mama to two Watching my superhero-crazed Mojo crashing his action figures into tables, cars and each other makes me cringe. Fighting is just not my thing. He asks me to play sometimes, and I tell him so. “I just don’t like the fighting,” I say. And I try to change the tone, [...]
All Akimbo: Big boy birthday
By Kim Blakely, mama to two Mojo just turned 5. I don’t know why, but I’ve been as nervous at Mojo’s birthday parties as I might have been at my own. Of course I’ve gotten to the venue a few minutes early to get everything ready. And once everything was ready my nerves jangled with [...]
All Akimbo: Cloth diapers!
By Kim Blakely, mama happy to be on diaper duty When I tell my friends I’ve decided to cloth diaper Moxie, the reaction I get is always something like, “Why?!” or “Ewww.” Some of them just look at me, mouths agape, because they just don’t know what to say. I tell them it’s not that [...]