November 2010

Non-sexist holiday shopping: Is it possible?

November 30, 2010




A while ago, I shared the post Have Yourself a Very Sexist Holiday by Melissa from Pigtail Pals on my facebook page. One of my readers wrote to me after reading the post and asked for my experience buying gifts for my daughter and my thoughts or recommendations for gift shopping for girls. I am [...]

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Risks of Informal Breastmilk Sharing versus Formula Feeding

November 28, 2010




Anyone who has even thought about having a child recently has certainly had the “Breast is Best” message hammered into their brain. They have probably also heard countless tales of women who found breastfeeding difficult or impossible and have probably heard them say that infant formula is an acceptable alternative. While there is nothing wrong [...]

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3 Children’s Book Recommendations

November 25, 2010




About a week ago, the New Internationalist Gifts and Publications catalog for 2010/2011 arrived with the latest issue of New Internationalist. I’ve received some of their cookbooks as gifts before and have often coveted the other things in the catalog. I have been looking for some good books to buy for our kids that will [...]

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Too much power, too little judgment in the hands of TSA

November 23, 2010




As most people probably know, the TSA has ramped up its security screening recently. There is an excellent description of the situation in my fellow Care2 blogger Robin Marty’s post Groped or Nudie Pics: TSA asks which method you prefer. It describes children being patted down as they scream and beg for it to stop. [...]

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A child asks: What happens when you’re done being dead?

November 22, 2010




One of the many magazines we subscribe to is the French magazine philosophie. One of the regular features is a section responding to reader questions and one of the columns within that section is questions d’enfance (childhood questions).  The November 2010 issue is a special about death and the child’s question was on the topic [...]

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Let’s throw the assumptions out with the bathwater

November 21, 2010




I’m late to the party, I know. It is a party I didn’t want to attend. I read Erica Jong‘s essay in the Wall Street Journal on the Madness of Motherhood and I yawned. Ho hum. She isn’t saying anything that Hanna Rosin, Margaret Wente, and plenty of others haven’t already said. She sounds like [...]

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Ready to snap

November 19, 2010




In my reader survey, two people asked me very similar questions. Since this evening I was ready to snap, which also tends to heighten my memory of all similar moments in the past, I figured this is as good a time as any to write about it.  Their questions were: I’d love to hear what [...]

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Richard Dawkins reads his hate mail

November 19, 2010




I know a number of bloggers who receive a lot of hate mail, people like Dooce and Her Bad Mother. Thankfully, I don’t receive a lot of it, but I have had some interesting comments. But I laughed out loud yesterday when I saw this video of Richard Dawkins reading his hate mail. So, since [...]

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PhD in Parenting Reader Survey Results

November 17, 2010




Earlier this month, I posted a reader survey for a period of one week. I was extremely grateful to receive 835 responses to the survey, which is very useful to me in better understanding how people access my blog and what they want to see on it. Although some of you said that you find [...]

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“Baby training” begins at birth

November 15, 2010




At what age is it okay to start sleep training? When should you potty train your toddler? At what age should children learn to read? When do you lay down the law when it comes to table manners? These are questions that parents ask and that many, many parenting books offer answers for. My answer, [...]

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