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...read moreSchool Days
Monday is Ethan’s first day in kindergarten. I’m so worried for him that I can’t sleep. There have been many times where I’ve had to release my son to the world in hopes that the world would receive and care for him well. This time feels different. His old school was much smaller, more intimate. [...]
...read moreRick Santorum and Pitting the Working Mothers Against the “Non-Losers”
Chuck pointed out this letter to the editor in our local paper that I seem to have missed: I’m in my own little world apparently. Every day I wake up with two happy kids, even when I go out the door for work. I work nights, my husband works days and due to the rising [...]
...read moreThe Nanny Diaries
Or, why I don’t blog about my summer job. The premise is this: a Park Slope nanny kept a personal weblog, which she showed to her employer. Her employer followed the blog “obsessively,” and was so offended by what she wrote that she eventually fired the nanny — and then wrote a piece for the [...]
...read moreFlip Schedule
It is midnight and I feel like doing anything but going to bed. Ethan has been with other members of the family for the last two weeks, the first week vacationing with my immediate family while I finished up a summer class, and this past week on a vacation with his dad. My baby is [...]
...read moreAnother Gem From GirlMom
Yesterday I wrote briefly about the death of Allison Crews. Just an additional note to point out how she created a forum in which stories like this could be told. When I got pregnant at 14, no one told me “How much I was throwing away.” No one tried to talk me out of carrying [...]
...read moreCelebrate Father’s Day, Schlafley style
By declaring, apparently, that domestic violence doesn’t matter. During the Clinton Administration, the feminists parlayed their hysteria that domestic violence is a national epidemic into the passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). This created a gigantic gravy train of taxpayers’ money, known as feminist pork, that empowers pro-divorce, anti-male activism. Don’t you just [...]
...read moreA father’s day must-read
Jesse at Pandagon writes an amazing piece on father’s day — and conservatives do us all a serious disservice by defining a “father’s role” along traditional gender lines. I believe that parents are important — fathers are important, and mothers are important. But as Jesse writes, the measure of a good father isn’t how well [...]
...read moreAllison Crews Dead At 22
This week, my mom wished me a happy Father’s Day, justifying that I am a mom and a dad to my boy. It made me wonder whether I should also wish E’s dad a happy Mother’s Day. Six years ago, pregnant and virtually homeless, I never would have thought that I would be so committed [...]
...read moreLactivists take to the streets
Really, what is the big deal about breastfeeding in public? Good for these “lactivists” — a public display of breastfeeding is just what we need. Babies need to eat, and breastmilk is whats best for them. People need to get over whatever sqeamishness or fears they have toward a lactating breast. “We’re all told that [...]
...read morePreschool Politics: Babies, Biting, and Drive-By Parenting
Writer Neal Pollack indulged Salon readers with his failing technique as a parent when his toddler son was ejected from preschool for biting. At one point he referred to his son as a “little shit,” a detail that has since been changed once the drive-by parenting began. Letters poured into Salon lambasting his account of [...]
...read moreSurrogate mothers bearing babies for gay couples
Well this is an interesting phenomenon. A growing number of surrogate mothers are helping same-sex couples (usually gay men, which would make sense) start families. I think it’s great — just as I think surrogate parenting is a pretty good thing to begin with. And this article serves as a reminder that same-sex couples with [...]
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