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Non-Religious Celebration of Christmas
I never thought I would willingly and consciously arrange for Child of Mine to celebrate Christmas at my own volition. Not since I quit...
Doreen Lwanga
Dec 15, 20157 min read
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Fear is Our Biggest Impediment
For many of us, fear is our biggest impediment! Fear grips us, cripples us, and enslaves us! We are afraid of the dark We are afraid of...
Doreen Lwanga
Dec 2, 20151 min read
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An article in Chicago Tribune profiles former Stanford Dean Lythcott-Haims, among other writers like Jessica Lahey (“The Gift of Failure”...
Doreen Lwanga
Nov 24, 20154 min read
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Parenting on a Shoe-String of Hope!
Parenting is not for the faint-hearted! Bet you have heard that plenty of times …! If you have not experienced parenting as yet, I am not...
Doreen Lwanga
Nov 16, 20154 min read
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Life is Not All About Work…..
Suddenly, a wave of sadness engulfed me….for a moment, as I sat down in the Library with Child of Mine [who by now you know I refer to...
Doreen Lwanga
Aug 29, 20157 min read
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Of puppy crushes and hard-on – Let’s Talk About “S” Bebe
Parents, guardians and educators of young minds, let’s imagine this happened to any of you. I will not disclose my sources…but as a...
Doreen Lwanga
Aug 28, 20156 min read
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The Joys and Pangs of Being a Single Parent and Black…..
Time and again, reality check strikes me that I am Black and a single parent, in a sea of Whites and Marrieds. I have felt both the joys,...
Doreen Lwanga
Aug 13, 20154 min read
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Motherhood: This Holy Sweet Grail…
Oh! Motherhood! A Happy Belated Mother’s Day 2015, everyone! At least if you claim to be a mother. And to all the baby mommas,...
Doreen Lwanga
May 19, 20152 min read
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Parenting: Another Chance at Living Selflessly
My Little Ninja Perhaps no other life experience has given me the opportunity to learn to live selflessly like Parenting. And I do not...
Doreen Lwanga
Mar 16, 20153 min read
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Schooling under Wartime, and Explaining that to my American-born child
He asked me, “Did you go to school in war?” “Yes, until when it was no longer a wise decision to go outside the house,” I told him. I...
Doreen Lwanga
Jan 30, 20154 min read
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We All Have Prejudices, We just Don’t Admit or Know It!
Recently during my son’s Tae-Kwon-Do class, I had a conversation with the other Tae-Kwon mom. Only my son and his kid showed up for...
Doreen Lwanga
Jan 18, 20155 min read
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I Never Signed Up to do “Men’s Work….but…
Perhaps, those who know me maybe surprised that I am making genderized statements. After all, I am that kind of girl often pigeon-holed...
Doreen Lwanga
Jan 5, 20154 min read
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New Year Resolutions from A Mother to A Wimpy Child
I have heard people claiming that making New Year Resolutions is so cliché! Everyone goes on to breaks their resolutions, so why bother?...
Doreen Lwanga
Jan 4, 20152 min read
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This and That of 2014
Facebook shared its review of my year 2014, though I did not endorse it. Nothing against FB’s compilation about me. In fact, it A little...
Doreen Lwanga
Dec 31, 20144 min read
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Lost In Translation…Between Santa and Religion…
I am revisiting the discussion about parents celebrating with their children, or is it children celebrating with their parents, or...
Doreen Lwanga
Dec 26, 20144 min read
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Dear Parents, Your Kids Celebrations Are Not About You…!
I typically do not write about family affairs. I have a self-censored rule that “I shall NOT wash my family dirty linen in public. Even...
Doreen Lwanga
Dec 26, 20146 min read
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Kids are Cultural “Whores”: Wait, can you say the “W” with Kids…?
It is amazing how quickly kids switch cultural identify. Well, if like me, you believe that “language is culture”, that’s what I am...
Doreen Lwanga
Dec 25, 20144 min read
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Learning about Veterans Day from my sixth grader
I cannot recall the last time I went to church, so the order of events at my neighborhood celebration of Veterans Day 2014 caught me off...
Doreen Lwanga
Nov 14, 20145 min read
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Amidst the Economic Hardship, Parents are Still Raising their Children on their Terms
Even amidst the economic hardship that has defined America’s workforce for nearly a decade, parents are still raising their children on...
Doreen Lwanga
Sep 4, 20145 min read
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Letting children learn the way they read! Lessons in Parenting and Homeschooling a Toddler
Call me a terrible mother! But I am a self-confessed Uganda-Chinese-French-America parent, and in that order! Uganda, because that is my...
Doreen Lwanga
Jul 13, 20145 min read
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