{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...
{Bringing Up Boogie} Spanking, Time-Outs and the Soul Train Line: Getting To the Discipline That Works For Us
By BASSEY IKPI When I was a kid, I was always in trouble for doing something stupid. I don't have the space to go into...
Bringing Up Boogie: Black Boys Shouldn’t Shoot
By BASSEY IKPI From the second my sonogram revealed I was having a boy, I vowed not to dress him like the lame little boys in...
