March 2011

What revolution? Why haven’t women pushed harder for caring work to be valued?

March 30, 2011




When I first got involved in blogging in the Spring of 2008 (coming up on 3 years), I started looking for other attachment parenting and feminist mothering blogs. The first feminist mothering blog that I came across and one that still holds a prominent place in my RSS reader today is blue milk. When I [...]

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Learning to control your mouth starts in Grade 1

March 28, 2011




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Canada Votes: Which issues are important to YOUR family?

March 25, 2011




Canadian Parliament made history today. It was the first time that a government has ever been defeated because it was deemed to be in contempt of Parliament.  This brings Stephen Harper’s Conservative government to an end thrusts Canadian citizens into a Spring election. During our last election, I scoured through the platforms of each political [...]

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Preparing an older sibling for a new birth

March 23, 2011




One of my favourite natural parenting bloggers is Lauren from Hobo Mama. I’ve been following her tweets and posts about her pregnancy with Baby #2 and know she has been doing a lot of thinking and researching. When I was planning my March guest bloggers, having Lauren post about her preparations for bringing a second [...]

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The Happiest Mom (New Book Release by Meagan Francis)

March 21, 2011




When Julian was little and I started spending time on attachment parenting forums, everyone was raving about Harvey Karp’s Happiest Baby on the Block. An anti-thesis to many of the baby trainers and baby schedulers, this book offered suggestions for creating a “fourth-trimester” like environment to help ease your baby’s transition into the world.  There [...]

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Islamic Children’s Books

March 15, 2011




This is March, which for me means I am working 12 to 14 hour days. It is part of my balance over time, not every day philosophy and reality. That means that I don’t have as much time to blog, but don’t fret! I have several amazing guest bloggers lined up this month and will [...]

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Not all breast pumps are made equal (OUCH!)

March 12, 2011




When I was pregnant with my first baby, I remember picking out items for the baby registry and purchasing things we wanted to have before he arrived. Most things were easy to pick out. However, there were a few items that I felt uneasy about choosing. In particular, the two things that I found most [...]

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Se couvrir : un enjeu féministe

March 8, 2011




First in English, then in Spanish, and now in French! (en français).  Many thanks to reader Catherine Leclerc for the translation from English into French. I’ve personally spent a lot of time in Quebec and France as a breastfeeding mother. In France, I always felt like I stood out and was being stared at when I [...]

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Do advertisers just think parents are this stupid? Or are they?

March 4, 2011




We all like to laugh at advertisements that are so ridiculous that they are funny. But are they really harmless? Advertising Standards Canada doesn’t think so and it has launched a public service announcement on truth in advertising. The campaign is called Dressing it Up Doesn’t Make it True and they’ve created this great television [...]

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CUBRIRSE: Es una cuestión feminista

March 3, 2011




Last week I released a video that I produced called Covering Up is a Feminist Issue and gave other bloggers permission to share the video on their blogs. One of the bloggers who shared it is Saray. On her blog, Mothers Utopia, she put up both English and Spanish posts about the video. That gave [...]

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