Totally Lila and the Awesome Haiku: Celebrating My Baby’s Poetry
Turns out my baby, Totally Lila, is pretty gangsta with the haiku—so gangsta that she's being honored by a celebrated children's book author and poet.
{On the Parenting Post} Young, Gifted & Black
This week, as part of a blog-a-thon hosted by Parenting.com’s Mom Congress, I wrote an open letter to my daughters about what their father and...
Confident Black Girls
I get why my mother did what she did. When you're overworked and way underpaid, and you're of a generation that thinks kids are to...
Check Out My Sah-Weet (!) New Blog on Unilever's Don'tFretTheSweat.com
By Denene Millner I'm in the thick of it that long, slow, delicate march my daughters are taking toward their teens. I see the changes...
Miss Independent: My Baby Isn’t A Baby Anymore
So my Lila absolutely HATES getting her hair combed. Like, “you need to inform me at least a week in advance of your plans to...
Proof That I’m Doing My Job: Black Girls and Self-Esteem
It’s not that I hated how I looked, really. It’s just that after a while, it was hard to be judged, and not start co-signing...
Tuesday SmackDown (Update): We CLEANED the Girls' Rooms, and An Hour Later, They're STILL Clean!
I’m exhausted. And I still haven’t showered today. And I have absolutely NO idea what I’m cooking for dinner. Hell, there’s nothing in the refrigerator...
Tuesday SmackDown: We're Cleaning the 7-Year-Olds' Rooms (Heaven Help Us).
TO SEE THE FINAL TUESDAY SMACKDOWN CLEAN-UP, CLICK HERE. So my friend Gretchen and I were commiserating the other day about how much alike our...
Wordless Wednesday If You Think This is Bad, You Should See The Other Kid!
Okay, so Lila didn’t lose her two front teeth throwing ‘bows. Well, not really. Let Mari tell it, and an unfortunate jostling incident with her...
HAPPY SEVENTH BIRTHDAY, LILA!
The nurse insisted that her heartbeat was too slow and so to be sure that my soon-to-be-born little girl arrived in top form, I needed...
