by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Feb 24, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
Here’s one of those headlines that can get everyone going: C-Section Rates Around the Globe at ‘Epidemic’ Proportions. According to the British medical journal The Lancet, a World Health Organization study on cesarean rates in Asia found...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Feb 28, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
Having raised a book-obsessed little boy (whose fondest wish was to be Alice in Wonderland and to wear a flower girl dress in a wedding and who never once cared about a car, truck or even train) followed by two brothers with transportation and construction love, mixed...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Mar 2, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
This past week was our school’s sixth grade talent show. The talent show is just one of a few annual performance traditions in the school (others include the Thanksgiving assembly, the fifth grade play, and a residency with artists Nikki Hu and Guy Van Duser...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Mar 4, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
You know that old adage about parenting: that it goes by very quickly but the days can feel so long? The person who first offered up that observation should not have been anonymous. She or he should have received all the adoring accolades available, because really, I...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Mar 6, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
At the risk of beginning with an apology (there you have it), Standing in the Shadows isn’t an anything blog. My friends, Sarah Hoffman and Bedford Hope (Accepting Dad) write about raising pink boys in their blogs, and while I, too, raised a pretty pink boy and...