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IN OTHER WORDS | 7 Things to Know When You Bring Your Baby Home
1. Sleep when the baby sleeps. Do not do housework! Are you insane woman? Your husband/partner/mother-in-law can do the laundry. You just made a person. You are the queen. 2. Take your stool softeners. This may be the best advice you'll ever get. I am not shitting you. Take the entire bottle, (but not all at once, geez). Trust me on this one. Way too much went on down there. You will be backed up like the Santa Monica freeway on Oscar night. Soften up, you’re going to need it. 3. … [Read More...]
IN OTHER WORDS | My Favorite Movie
The Departed is my kind of movie. And yes, this review is a few years overdue, but I heard "Gimme Shelter" yesterday, and now, as always when I do, scenes are stuck in my head. The soundtrack runs through my brain. (And, there are a lot of YouTube links in this post.) Favorite line ever. In any movie. Mark Wahlberg kills it. I'm the guy who does his job, you must be the other guy. Unless you have been under a rock for almost a decade, you know the story: An undercover state cop … [Read More...]
IN OTHER WORDS | Guest post The Change Blog
“Have You Lost Weight?” is a revised version of a previous post. Stop asking this question and change the narrative about body image with your answer. Please read on and click on The Change Blog link to read the entire article. by Jenny Kanevsky | 0 comments Ah, the loaded question, “have you lost weight?” If I only had a slice of cheesecake for every time someone asked me that. I’d have a lot of freaking cheesecake. I like New York traditional, by the way, and then … [Read More...]
IN OTHER WORDS | Guest Post on Scary Mommy
Did I Just Get Old? SCARY MOMMY » GROWING OLD BY JENNY KANEVSKY 0 0 0 0 Image via Shutterstock I woke up the other day with horizontal indentations across my forehead. I stood at the mirror and tried to rub them out. My husband was supportive. “Dear, you’re old. They’re laugh lines. You’re happy, but you’re old.” “I’m not happy now. And you’re bald.” - See more at: http://www.scarymommy.com/just-get-old/#sthash.oD4Al9W1.dpuf … [Read More...]
IN OTHER WORDS | Guest Post on The Good Men Project
Here is an essay from The Good Men Project: Are You Raising Compassionate Boys? JANUARY 8, 2015 BY JENNY KANEVSKY When Jenny Kanevsky’s sons offered her comfort during an illness, she realized she and her husband had instilled compassion. Here’s how they did it. To say I was a reluctant mother is an understatement, and I love kids. It was fear. Fear of screwing up. Fear of creating dysfunction, fear of dooming my offspring to a lifetime of therapy. My husband was the cheerleader. He … [Read More...]