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Getting It Right By Christine Fugate Mea culpa. I want to apologize for the title of my column, GROMs Be Gone. It was not my intention to say that skateboarding should be banned from Laguna Beach....
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My Yellow Brick Road By Christine Fugate. For spring break, I traveled solo to the Land of Oz for a service honoring my Aunt Ona. Even though she had traveled the world (and lived in the OC), she...
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The Fear to Volunteer By Christine Fugate. A friend of mine says there are two types of people in the world: Those who have worked as a waitress and those who haven’t. My husband says there are...
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Parenting Method #261 By Christine Fugate. I’m finding it difficult to whine about motherhood these days. Perhaps after 11 years, I’ve perfected a method to this parenting madness. Granted my girls...
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Not Child’s Play By Christine Fugate. Somehow parenting seems to be getting more and more worrisome. Not only do we have to ask “do you know where your child is?” but also “do you know what your...
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Mothering Heights: My Academy Awards
By Christine Fugate. I’m feeling oxygen deprivation as I realize there are only four days left of school. We must keep calm and carry on. Or as I like to say, “Keep calm and eat chocolate.” Instead of...
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Mothering Heights: Parental Unplugging
By Christine Fugate. The last few weeks of school are like the final days of pregnancy. You’re so busy getting ready for it that by the time your water breaks, the final school bell rings, you are...
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I’ve taken to bed. Seriously. I am in bed, refusing to move. I vow to never leave my house, ever again. It’s not because I found out that my summer diet is actually a weight gain program or that my...
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Mothering Heights: The Miss List
By Christine Fugate. When I was growing up, I didn’t have any famous female role models. Of course, I wanted to help people like my social worker mother, do everything perfectly like my Aunt Ona, and...
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Mothering Heights: Kardashian vs. Franklin
By Christine Fugate. “I want to be famous,” my 11-year-old tells me. We are standing on Hollywood Boulevard watching the premiere of the new Ben Stiller movie, “The Watch.” I had a meeting in Los...
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Mothering Heights: Golden Heroes
By Christine Fugate. All together now, “Big breath in.” Repeat after me, “School has started. And the tourists are gone.” Now doesn’t that feel better? Not really. I’m still traumatized from...
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Mothering Heights: A Survivor’s Strategy
By Christine Fugate. Here’s my speech: Get a mammogram yearly, examine your breasts monthly, and exercise daily. If you have breast cancer in your family, have dense tissue or feel a strange lump,...
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Mothering Heights: The Turkey Fail
By Christine Fugate. I’ve obviously failed as a mother. Come Thanksgiving and my kids only want to eat chicken tenders and French fries. There’s no respect (or desire) for the roasted turkey,...
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Mothering Heights: The Hanukkah Bunny
By Christine Fugate. “Did you hear that?” I asked my girls as they ate dinosaur chicken nuggets and juice boxes for dinner. Their little faces dropped. “What was it?” “I heard something upstairs,...
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The Thankful Turtle
By Christine Fugate. From one moment to the next, my 5-year-old became obsessed with turtles. She decided that what our family needed was not a dishwasher that scrubbed dishes or a garden with live...
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