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The Ride Home

by Dorea 08.19.2009

There are wonderful things about raising a kid who rides public transit. I love that H. is out in the world, interacting with all kinds of people, all the time, and not just with the people we decide and arrange for her to have contact with. It’s a pleasure to watch her skills at navigating [...]

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Carfree toddler (and grown up) concerts this week

by Dorea 04.22.2009

H’s grandma (aka Angela’s mom, aka “Baba”) tipped us off about a series of great toddler-friendly T-accessible activities this week. All this week there are free guitar concerts inside South Station hosted by the Boston Classical Guitar Society. Yesterday, H and I headed downtown on the red line to meet up with Baba, eat a [...]

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Surviving carfree babyhood

by Dorea 02.19.2009

We recently got an interesting comment from Charlotte of Chic Cyclist, on the thread about how we gave up our car. Charlotte writes: “some vestigial teenager in me clings to the ‘option’ of having a car somewhere, just in case. I’m going to have to read about how you handled the early months of H’s [...]

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Walking in the Winter with our Toddler

by Angela 01.05.2009

We have made a lot of progress on walking with H since we posted about it five months ago. H has gotten older and is more physically skilled and she’s gotten a lot of practice at walking. Some credit for this has to go to her grandma who is more likely to walk with her [...]

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Carfree+Pregnant+Toddler+Winter

by Dorea 12.24.2008

So far, I can’t really say pregnancy + being car-free + toddler + winter is my favorite combination ever. Here’s my bullet point highlights (actually, mostly whines) so far: If we owned a car right now, you’d better believe I would be driving it everywhere. As a result, if we owned a car right now, [...]

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Car-free toddler development

by Dorea 12.04.2008

Upon arrival home last night, Angela reported the following conversation with H earlier in the evening: H: Where Mama?A: Mama is taking the train home.H: Mama on the train?A: Yep.H: Mama go to Alewife?A: Yep. It’s not in any of the books, but I believe this is a major developmental milestone. Our two-year-old knows our [...]

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