May 2011

I’m getting around this week…

May 31, 2011




I’ve been busy writing for the past while and by fluke several of the things I have been writing all ended up scheduled to go up this week.  I hope you’ll take a moment to drop by some of these other places where I am writing and leave a comment. Dr. Greene’s Perspectives Blog I [...]

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The Family Dinner: Is it “All That”?

May 29, 2011




I love the book The Family Dinner.  I really do. But I love it in the same way that I love magazines like Style at Home or Luxury Travel Magazine — it is visually appealing, inspiring, and makes me salivate at the mouth. It is life porn. In The Family Dinner, the food is perfect, [...]

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My Blog is a Preschooler

May 26, 2011




Three years ago, I sat at my laptop at my in-laws kitchen table and tapped out my very first blog post on PhD in Parenting. After having written my first six blog posts, I had received a grand total of 13 page views.  A couple of weeks later, when I wrote a post on faulty [...]

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What Difference does Difference Make? An Appreciation and Review of “Equally Shared Parenting”

May 25, 2011




Today I’m happy to welcome Andrea Doucet for another guest post on my blog. In this post she is sharing her thoughts on equally shared parenting and the book on that topic by Amy Vachon and Marc Vachon. Twenty-one years ago, my life was very focused on equally shared parenting. I was a new doctoral [...]

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Gender/Sex Secret — For How Long Really?

May 24, 2011




There has been a lot of talk on the Internet and in traditional media about a Toronto couple that has decided not to reveal the sex of their child to anyone other than the midwife and the child’s older brothers.  This is not the first time this has happened — a couple in Sweden got [...]

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Do you know what is in your meat?

May 24, 2011




I originally posted this article on Care2.com in February 2011. I am reposting it here as part of the Healthy Child, Healthy World initiative to educate parents about the over-use of antibiotics. Most of the antibiotics in the US are administered to animals living in concentrated, industrial feeding operations. This week, Healthy Child, Healthy World [...]

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Who are you talking to?

May 22, 2011




Emma: Mama! Me: What? Julian: What Mama? Emma: [something incomprehensible, at the same time Julian was speaking] Me: What is it Emma? [attempt to clarify who I am talking to and get her to repeat herself] Julian: It’s not Emma, it’s me Julian. Me [to Julian]: I’m not talking to you, I’m talking to your [...]

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Strange and Disturbing Breastfeeding News of the Week

May 18, 2011




Another week, another round of disturbing stories about breastfeeding in the news. At Bad Moms Club, I wrote about Child Protective Services being called to Mariah Carey’s hospital room because she was drinking and breastfeeding. Her partner was able to intervene and CPS left, but after learning a lot more about how easily and willingly [...]

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Are you too invested in parenting highs?

May 13, 2011




At the Motherhood Activism, Advocacy and Agency Conference we have been talking a lot about the expectations that are put on mothers and the expectations mothers put on themselves. In my post yesterday, I mentioned a series of questions that Amber Kinser asked about forgiveness and the need for us to forgive our mothers, our [...]

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Motherhood Activism, Advocacy, Agency

May 12, 2011




Right now I’m in Toronto at the Motherhood Activism, Advocacy, Agency Conference organized by the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement. According to the conference description, this conference: …will examine the subject of maternal empowerment from the perspective of both scholarship and activism, drawing from and building upon Motherhood Studies research and the activism [...]

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