Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, so by the time you've read this I will be on my way to having cooked a big dinner with my mother, watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and National Dog Show on TV, eaten a delicious dinner (maybe delicious, since we're experimenting with gluten-free turkey stuffing this year because of my wheat problem) with extended family, and begun the stain-removal process on my kids' clothes.
I'm so thankful for all of you, who read and comment and email me with questions and rebuttals and funny stories and challenges.
I'm also thankful for Lawrence J. Cohen, author of Playful Parenting (one of my favorite books ever), who is a calming voice of reason in the parenting literature genre. I just discovered that he's been answering reader questions over at PBSKids.org (we spend some time there playing the Curious George games like Banana 411). His two most recent books (Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children and Mom, They're Teasing Me: Helping Your Child Solve Social Problems) are on helping kids navigate social relationships, and that appears to be the focus of the questions he's tackling in his column at PBSKids.org. Definitely worth a read.
Back to Q&A tomorrow.
It's not Thanksgiving here in Germany, but I'd like to thank you for providing your "Ask Moxie"-column for free. I'm finding your advice both valuable and entertaining.
Happy thanksgiving.
Posted by: Susanne | November 23, 2006 at 09:17 AM
Happy Thanksgiving, Moxie, to you and yours.
Posted by: Asha | November 23, 2006 at 12:19 PM
Happy Thanksgiving.
Posted by: Purple_Kangaroo | November 24, 2006 at 06:09 AM
I am so thankful for having access to your wisdom, Moxie, and your reader's too. Thankful I have had this community to come to with my questions during the last ten months, it has helped me so much.
Posted by: jesse | November 24, 2006 at 07:26 AM
Thank you for this blog, among many other things.
Posted by: Menita | November 25, 2006 at 04:28 AM
Try rice stuffing - wild rice (cooked), brown rice (cooked), mushrooms, onions, carrot slices, rosemary, a bit of garlic and salt, plus some butter to soften the onions in first. You can add in varying amounts of 'bread-like-stuff' if you like, but it isn't necessary. YUM. And gluten-free! :)
Hope it was good, regardless. And thanks for being such a sane presence.
Posted by: hedra | November 27, 2006 at 12:27 PM