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Rockin’ With Kids

SF Chronicle Datebook Cover Story   Rockin’ With Kids By Erika Milvy The value of mixing  booze and babies was memorably extolled by San Francisco native Christie Mellor, who coined the term “The Three-Martini Playdate.” Her 2004 book mocks uber-moms and micromanaged childhoods and extols

My So-Called Free-Range Childhood

….It’s called “free-range parenting” — or, depending on which side of the mommy wars you’re on, it’s called the worst kind of parenting ever. Now that my daughter is in middle school, I can’t actually believe how free-range my own childhood was. It was Manhattan