{Bringing Up Boogie} My Boy and the White Barbie Cozying Up Under the Christmas Tree
By BASSEY IKPI Boogie is in that can you buy me that? stage of life. I dread commercials with anything that races, flies, explodes or...
{Bringing up Boogie} For Colored Girls Who Are Pregnant, Alone & Unable to See the Rainbow
By BASSEY IKPI The doctor says I've lost weight in the last two weeks. The doctor says that the growth is even bigger now than...
{Bringing Up Boogie} Down With The Fresh Beat Band and Other Kid Shows That Aren't Fresh
The Fresh Beat Band stars Twist, Kiki, Shout, and Marina, a.k.a. Boogie’s homies By BASSEY IKPIAfter last week's mommy melt down, I've decided to relax...
{Bringing Up Boogie} Tantrums & Tears For Fears: Waiting For the Boogie Man
Bassey with Boogie in the belly. [Photo by Kimberly Gaines] By BASSEY IKPI I didn't want to have children. I told people that it was because...
{Bringing Up Boogie} Pumpkin Patches, Pumas & Play Dates: When Parenting Solo Takes On New Meaning
Photo courtesy of Jr Conlin This weekend, Boogie had his first play date with a new single father friend of mine. Now, I'm generally against...
{Bringing Up Boogie} I Gave Birth To My Son, But He Gave Me Life
Bassey and Boogie It’s Love. By BASSEY IKPI A few years ago when he was two, Boogie was so very sick. He would be lethargic...
{Bringing Up Boogie} Crocs, Muffets, and Parent Spies To the Left
By BASSEY IKPI E is a very friendly little boy and I know that most mothers are jumpier than I am about whom their kid...
{Bringing Up Boogie} I Don't Bake and My Kid's a Neat Freak: We Were Made For Each Other
By BASSEY IKPI Last week, while in the car with Boogie, I was fiddling with the radio, trying to find a song that I wouldn't...
{Bringing Up Boogie} Angels In the Delivery Room: In Memory of My Friend, Nurse Valada
Vintage Boogie When I was pregnant with Boogie, I had a difficult time getting used to the idea of pregnancy and negotiating the new changes...
{Bringing Up Boogie} Bump the Baby Talk Mommy Needs Quiet!
By BASSEY IKPI When Boogie was born, I forbade (yes, FORBADE) anyone from speaking to him in baby talk. I told anyone that would listen...
