Saturday
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IComLeavWe: Day 1
Saturday, November 21, 2009
This is day one of IComLeavWe on speed. As I make my way through over 100 blogs this week, reconnecting and leaving comments, I hope to feature a couple of posts each day and also list the posts that I commented on.
Our role, as mothers, can all too often be to try to counteract or drown out the negative and counterproductive messages that our children receive from society. Two of the posts that I read today shared important messages that we need to pass along to our daughters.
In an open letter to my daughter, Summer from Wired for Noise wrote an important message to her daughter that took off from Twilight inspired wall decals saying "I'm just a girl, waiting for my Edward" and "Your scent is like a drug to me...like my own personal brand of heroin". She wrote:
In her post, Summer explains that a girl, a woman, does not need a boy, or a man to complete her. "All you need is to look in the mirror and know that you are beautiful."
A great complement to this post is Capital Mom's beautifully told story She can. She writes about a playground encounter where a group of boys wouldn't let her daughter play with them because they were fighting and girls don't fight. While Capital Mom didn't want her daughter fighting, she knew that accepting this explanation was just the beginning:
Read Capital Mom's post, She can, to learn how she stick handled this sticky situation and continues to teacher her daughter that she can.
This is the list of blogs that I commented on today. I hope you'll visit some of them too.
Featured posts: No you don't, yes you can - lessons for our daughters
Our role, as mothers, can all too often be to try to counteract or drown out the negative and counterproductive messages that our children receive from society. Two of the posts that I read today shared important messages that we need to pass along to our daughters.
In an open letter to my daughter, Summer from Wired for Noise wrote an important message to her daughter that took off from Twilight inspired wall decals saying "I'm just a girl, waiting for my Edward" and "Your scent is like a drug to me...like my own personal brand of heroin". She wrote:
Dear Saffron
Someday you will be a teenager. And when that day comes you may start to have feelings for other teens. The way they smell, the way the smile, the way they laugh. All of these things might start to make you feel like smiling and giggling and blushing. And if, heaven help you, you are like your mother you might start to get the idea that you need a certain special someone. That this other person “completes” you. That the affection of this other person gives you worth.
And when that day comes, I want to say no. Keep reading Summer's letter to Saffron...
In her post, Summer explains that a girl, a woman, does not need a boy, or a man to complete her. "All you need is to look in the mirror and know that you are beautiful."
A great complement to this post is Capital Mom's beautifully told story She can. She writes about a playground encounter where a group of boys wouldn't let her daughter play with them because they were fighting and girls don't fight. While Capital Mom didn't want her daughter fighting, she knew that accepting this explanation was just the beginning:
It starts with a three year old saying she can't play fight because she is a girl. By six, girls can't throw the ball properly. By nine girls aren't good at math. At eleven girls don't know how to play video games. By fifteen it's jokes about what exactly girls can do.
Read Capital Mom's post, She can, to learn how she stick handled this sticky situation and continues to teacher her daughter that she can.
Posts I commented on today
This is the list of blogs that I commented on today. I hope you'll visit some of them too.
- A little bit of Momsense: Holiday Shopping Ideas: Infant - 18 mths
- The Alternative Baby: Book in For a Convenient Baby
- Adventures in Babywearing: Prayers for Anissa
- AP International: Giving from the Heart and Hands, Not the Wallet
- AmiExpat: Real German Cuisine Challenge: Zwiebelmarktkuchen (Weimar Onion Festival Cake)
- The Baby Dust Diaries: Vaccines are Like Seat Belts
- 5 minutes for mom: Complete shock - Not one tear nor tantrum
- babyREADY: A mama is allowed to brag
- Barely Knit Together: How to leave a party in ten easy steps or maybe fewer
- Wired for Noise: An open letter to my daughter
- Bessie Viola: little things
- Beyond Prenatals: Misleading Advertisements: Pedialax
- Blacktating: Formula Fed America
- Blue Milk: There is a reason why I have an entire category dedicated to 'motherhood sux'
- Blue Milk: The free pass for judging parents
- Born in Japan: Priorities
- Breastfeeding Moms United: I Had a Bad Day: Sympathy Welcome
- Capital Mom: She Can
- Cave Mother: Premature Babies and Co-Sleeping: Would you do it?
Reader Comments (9)
Thanks so much for visiting and leaving a comment! I can't wait to visit some of the sites you've mentioned.
Thank you for sharing, it is always great to come across a list of interesting blog posts and to have the opportunity to discover someone new in the blogosphere.
Excellent way to share what you've been reading. Will borrow.
Wow- this is impressive! And admirable!
Steph
This is a great way of highlighting interesting posts! I am enjoying reading up on stuff I would have otherwise never had a chance to read if not for ICLW.
a very interesting post!
This is such a fun idea! It was wonderful having you visit, and I thank you for sharing these other links. I have high regard for your judgement, so I know they'll be great. :)
@Jennifer: Nice to see you here too! Just a little disclaimer though regarding the post and my judgment. Most of them were great, maybe even all of them, I can't remember. But that wasn't my criteria for choosing them. I just went to the blogs on my blogroll, looked for a recent post that peeked my interest enough to comment, and included a link here. The featured ones I wholeheartedly recommend. The others are worth a look too, but are not necessarily hand picked (if that makes any sense).
I have been focusing on commenting on blogs lately, not so much for IComLeavWe but just to be more involved anyways. I really like how you are tracking where you have been. It is a great way to get exposure for the other bloggers. I might need to go back and make a list of where I have been recently and post it just for the extra love it offers. :)