American Family http://american-family.org Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:19:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 house plan help http://american-family.org/2012/02/07/house-plan-help/ http://american-family.org/2012/02/07/house-plan-help/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:19:13 +0000 AmericanFamily http://american-family.org/?p=4179 Dear People in the Computer who have Teenagers.

Do you have a first floor master (in a 2 story house)?  If so, what do you like or dislike about it?

Frustrated house planners need to know.

Thanks.

]]> http://american-family.org/2012/02/07/house-plan-help/feed/ 2 The Dark Decade, the Sweet Spot and Undesirable Number One http://american-family.org/2012/02/06/the-dark-decade-the-sweet-spot-and-undesirable-number-one/ http://american-family.org/2012/02/06/the-dark-decade-the-sweet-spot-and-undesirable-number-one/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:56:52 +0000 AmericanFamily http://american-family.org/?p=4175 This week, M will turn nine.  NINE.  As in, half way to the end of my legal parenting responsibility for her.  I know it is hard to believe, but I am not one of those parents who gets all verklempt about my babies growing up.

Except this time, I am.  How can my baby be [...]]]> http://american-family.org/2012/02/06/the-dark-decade-the-sweet-spot-and-undesirable-number-one/feed/ 7 Sharing your child with other parents (as seen on tv) http://american-family.org/2012/02/01/sharing-your-child-with-other-parents-as-seen-on-tv/ http://american-family.org/2012/02/01/sharing-your-child-with-other-parents-as-seen-on-tv/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:51:11 +0000 AmericanFamily http://american-family.org/?p=4171 Is anyone else watching Switched at Birth?   It is a story about two teens who were (wait for it…..) switched at birth.  When they discover the error, there is a lot of introspection and thinking about what is nature/nurture/family etc.

Maybe it is just me, but there were a lot of threads in it [...]]]> http://american-family.org/2012/02/01/sharing-your-child-with-other-parents-as-seen-on-tv/feed/ 3