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By Katia Hetter (CNN)–In this age of farm-to-table dinner adoration and making one’s own butter and baking powder from scratch, I rise up in defense of the drive-thru, the TV dinner and the semi and fully-prepared dinners from the grocery store. That includes bags o’ salad, minced garlic and frozen pizza. As I return [...] By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — My daughter occasionally goes on a hugging and kissing strike. By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — I have no idea why my 3-year-old wants to be a cowboy for Halloween this year, because she won’t tell me. That’s OK. I don’t need to know her reasoning to make it happen. Thanks to her outdoorsy grandparents who live in [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — Olivia Nakamura can still remember the neighbor who always hosted a barbecue in his front yard for his son’s birthday party. He’d invite all the kids on their suburban Seattle block, except her son and the Asian-American children who lived there. “I [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — “I can’t watch TV without my pajamas!” I should be reading the last of three bedtime stories to my 3-year-old before I sing the three songs that usually send her to sleepyland. No more than three. That’s the deal. But I have to make [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — “Mama, put the phone AWAY.” That’s my kid talking to me, and she’s only 3. She’s scolding me, but she’s scolding you, too. So listen up. I understand your work pays the bills and you only have time to connect to people through Tweeting your mood or [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN “Hey, we didn’t sing the blessing!” After all these months, my 3-year-old daughter’s words still startle me. Since my family’s move from New York to Atlanta, Georgia, last year, almost everything in our lives has changed. That includes the instruction of a blessing before eating. We do [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — The job of a children’s birthday party host seems straightforward: Thomas the Tank Engine or princess theme? Traditional yellow cake with icing or ice cream cake? Jelly beans or arts and crafts in the gift bags? To which we suggest a modern twist: Don’t [...] skirt! magazine By Katia Hetter I blame it all on the polyester green pants. Unlike today’s fashion-conscious eight-year-olds, I was not in charge of buying my own clothes in the third grade. In 1977, my mother bought my clothes on sale or made me wear the clothes my grandparents had sent us. When I had burned through all [...] San Francisco Chronicle Sunday magazine By Katia Hetter I’ve been trying to figure out where to spend Sept. 11 this year. As I rode the train to work on a recent morning, my mind wandered to the previous anniversaries of those terrorist attacks, and I let myself remember. For the past two years, I’ve attended services at Riverside Church [...] |
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