Archive - January 2020

Sharenting: Munchausen’s By Social Media

Jan 23 2020

A limp, flushed little body lying on a couch. A swollen face framed by a hospital pillow, an IV in a pale arm. A child being taken by stretcher into a medical facility, captioned with the horrific speculation as to the child’s injuries. This is not the nightly news. This is Facebook. Instagram. What is showing up on social media feeds everywhere. These are all examples of posts made by parents, of their own children. Feverish and lethargic, hospitalized, traumatically injured. This isn’t Munchausen’s by Proxy. Nor is it just oversharing. It has its own name: Sharenting. Until I saw…

Forgo “Quality Time” in Favor of the Little Moments

Jan 02 2020

Big things come in small packages. It’s the little things that matter most. We’ve all heard these words of wisdom, in one form or another. We’ve even believed and embraced the ideas behind them. I know I have. Yet admittedly, I still dream of a Pioneer Woman Thanksgiving, the perfect Rockwellian Christmas, and the family vacation worthy of an Instagram story. Perhaps you do, too. And that the best time, “Quality Time” occurs while engaging in the perfectly orchestrated family event, that we bond best in swirls of watercolor, shades of supersaturation and while tucking in to a perfectly-glazed 20-pound…

My name is Heidi Black and I have it all... Maybe not in the traditional sense of the phrase but I do feel I have it all: three beautiful, healthy children, a devoted husband and father and the privilege of being a Domestic Engineer. (I used to call myself a SAHM but that just doesn’t fit when my day is filled with coordinating 5 schedules and preplanning their execution, all up to a week in advance.) And now, indulging in a not-so-secret desire to write, and following the advice “write what you know” I am ready to share what I have learned from this ironic life journey and along with you, discover answers to those many questions related to parenting.