About the Author

Bio

Annie has been blogging about the art and science of parenting on the PhD in Parenting Blog since May 2008. She is a social, political and consumer advocate on issues of importance to parents, women and children. She regularly uses her blog as a platform to create awareness and to advocate for change, calling out the government, corporations, media and sometimes other bloggers for positions, policies and actions that threaten the rights and well-being of parents and their children. Annie also writes for the Care2 Causes blog and contributes occasionally at Attachment Parenting International and Moms Rising. She is active on twitter (@phdinparenting) and facebook (http://facebook.com/phdinparenting).

More about me and my parenting philosophy

• I’m the mother of two children, a boy born in 2004 and a girl born in 2007.
• I believe firmly in attachment parenting and find that this approach is very intuitive to me. This means that I breastfeed, babywear, and co-sleep. I do not spank or let my children “cry it out”.
• I am an entrepreneur. I became my own boss after my son was born to have more flexibility to spend time with family. My husband is a stay-at-home dad currently. He stayed at home with our oldest between when I went back to work and when he started preschool and he is now staying at home with our youngest and will stay with her until she goes to preschool.
• I am not religious and will not be raising my children in a religion.
• I care about the environment and try to make choices in parenting and life with the environment in mind.
• I enjoy nature and the outdoors and want my children to spend a lot of time outdoors being physically active too.
• I am considering doing a PhD in corporate social responsibility and consider issues related to consumer ethics when deciding which products to buy for my family.
• I respect my children. I treat them with the same respect as adults and do not belittle them.
• I believe in diversity. I want my children to be exposed to people from different cultures, different generations, different sexual orientations, and different levels of income.
• I read to my children. I believe that books can open up new worlds. Most of my reading right now is parenting books, but at least I can help my children to escape into a good story even if I don’t have time myself.
• I am not a martyr. I know that I need some time to myself to recharge. I enjoy coffee breaks while at work. I enjoy participating in team sports. I am addicted to a few TV shows and like unwinding on-line.

Want to get in touch? You can e-mail me at phdinparenting at gmail dot com.