…While Mother’s Day may strike some as an occasion for our family to double our pleasure/double our fun, the second Sunday in May has become the thorn in my bouquet of roses. I don’t particularly feel like sharing the holiday. https://slate.com/human-interest/2010/05/a-lesbian-mother-wants-to-be-the-only-mommy-on-mother-s-day.html
101 TV Shows to See Before You Grow Up: Be your own TV critic–the must-see TV list for kids (– April 1, 2017) by Erika Milvy (Author) 101 TV shows for kids to discover and for families to watch together, all in one book.
‘Hamilteens’ may not have seen the show, but they know everything about it. Who needs One Direction when you’ve got a musical about the founding fathers? Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of Hamilton at Tony awards. Photograph: CBS photo archive/Getty Images Erika Milvy Wed 22 Jun
What does a six-year-old girl understand about the tumultuous life of grown-ups? The new film, What Maisie Knew, asks that question. The movie is a gut-churning domestic drama about a turbulent divorce and its collateral damage. Source: Film Review, What Maisie Knew: Is the Kid
SF Chronicle Datebook Cover Story Rockin’ With Kids By Erika Milvy The value of mixing booze and babies was memorably extolled by San Francisco native Christie Mellor, who coined the term “The Three-Martini Playdate.” Her 2004 book mocks uber-moms and micromanaged childhoods and extols
….It’s called “free-range parenting” — or, depending on which side of the mommy wars you’re on, it’s called the worst kind of parenting ever. Now that my daughter is in middle school, I can’t actually believe how free-range my own childhood was. It was Manhattan
I may be a little too interested in my seventh grader’s Instagram account. It’s a peephole into the social lives of her classmates. It’s a juicy new reality show: “The Private Lives of Private School Pubescents.” Until it all turned sour, my daughter and I
“Why are men so stingy with their sperm?” I griped in passing to the guy next to me at the rehearsal dinner before a friend’s wedding. (They say seating arrangements at a wedding are critical, but this, I’m sure, was unprecedented.) Up to this point