So tomorrow's national "Take Our Children to the Park... And Leave Them There" day and my kids won't be participating. Then again, they're only 5 and 2, so that has A LOT to do with my decision. I'm pretty sure I'd feel differently if they were, say, 14 and 11... maybe. Listen, I'm by no means a supporter of helicopter parenting, but there's no way I can get behind leaving children at the park in this day and age. 

Although I'm all for letting children be children, I can honestly say this idea would be a bit too much considering all the potential dangers. Not to mention the possibility that some sicko might find out about this and take advantage of the situation. 

La verdad es que desde que vi este video, este bebito se robó mi corazón por lo tierno que resulta escucharlo diciendo que no a todo. ¡Sí! Aunque puede que sea el bebé más negativo del mundo, no puedes negar que es ¡toda una adoración! No cabe duda, que esos enormes ojos negros que tiene, predicen que este chiquitín será todo un pícaro de grande ¡Imagínate! El solo hecho de conquistar a las personas con un negativo monosílabo, habla de la astucia de este bebito para ganarse los corazones de sus papás y de los más de 2 millones de internautas que han visto el video.

The day my son Michael was diagnosed as severely deaf was the day I discovered the true meaning of motherhood. I don't think anything (and believe me I've had my ups and downs) has EVER been as painful to me. This was more than 14 years ago on a Wednesday. The previous Monday, the company I worked for had announced my promotion, but I can only remember how I felt the night I knew my son could not hear. I prayed to God that he would take away my house, my new title at work, and all of the material things that I had earned thanks to my rising career. I was overwhelmed by guilt, feeling that I had focused too much on work and not enough on the things that really matter in life.

Cuando leí la historia de Anyeli Hernández Rodríguez, me quedó tan mal sabor que no he parado de pensar en esto toda la tarde. Esta pequeña guatemalteca fue secuestrada el 3 de noviembre del 2006, cuando tan solo tenía dos años de edad, mientras su madre se descuidó al abrir la puerta de su casa en una población llamada San Miguel Petapa.

La madre no ha descansado desde entonces hasta  dar con el paradero de su niña, a quien vio por última vez hace cinco años, cuando era montada a la fuerza en un taxi que se perdió ante la mirada impotente y desgarrada de la madre, quien transformó todo ese dolor en una capacidad investigativa comparable al FBI, hasta que consiguió y probó que su pequeña  fue dada en adopción a Timothy y Jennifer Monahan, una pareja estadounidense que vive en Missouri.

I've had it with the breastfeeding police and the "mommy wars" and I am going to tell you why.

The sniping, the scientific evidence, the super-moms and La Leche league pushing their principles like a bunch of door-to-door salesmen--it has all gotten way out of hand. Even the First Lady was dragged into the whole discussion, what a waste of her time!  

Motherhood has become crazy--everyone judges how we birth, how we feed, how we discipline, how we talk to our kids, how we teach them consequences. Why can't people mind their own business?