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Overworked, Debt-Laden Gen X Opting For No Kids

October 26, 2011




I originally posted this last week at Care2.com, but wanted to have a discussion about it with my readers too. I hope you’ll chime in with your thoughts. According to a new study by the Center for Work-Life Policy, 43 percent of Gen X women and 32 percent of Gen X men do not have [...]

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One Mom, Every Mom, A Million Moms, and Several More Million Moms

October 25, 2011




There are apparently around 85 million moms in the United States. Maybe you are one of them. Did you know that it only takes one mom? That could be you. You could be the one mom using your voice on behalf of the world’s poorest. But in reality there were 10 social media moms who [...]

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Planting Seeds of Change

October 16, 2011




We’ve all heard the saying “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” This proverb can be so aptly applied to so many different situations. When I think about how to best help people in need, regardless of the [...]

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Is shame a barrier to social change?

September 15, 2011




I’ve had a lot of interesting conversations over the past few days about shame, guilt, and social change. Without going into excruciating detail, I heard a lot of people say that calls for formula marketing to be restricted makes formula feeding moms feel shamed because if formula marketing needs to be restricted, then that means [...]

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Breastfeeding Advocate Asks Babble to Remove Her “Momination”

September 11, 2011




A little over a year ago, I wrote a post calling out popular parenting website Babble for trying to dupe breastfeeding moms by putting ads for a 1-800 number feeding expert line run by infant formula brand Similac on its Breastfeeding Guide and other baby related content. Despite the fact that global public health experts [...]

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Does this ad appeal to you or turn you off?

August 24, 2011




Edit to add: Because a lot of people were confused, I’ll explain a bit. This is a poster in the window of a store that sells brand name products at discount prices. I was hoping for people to comment on whether “baby got brand” is a concept that would appeal to you and make you [...]

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Judging a Book By Its Cover

August 12, 2011




Emma got a new book from my mom. At bedtime, I asked her if she wanted me to read the new book from Grannie. “No,” she said. “I want a different book.” So we read a different book. The next day, the same discussion. “Do you want to read the new book from Grannie?” I [...]

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The Science of Evil and Empathy

July 30, 2011




The front page of today’s Globe and Mail jumped out at me. “Can science really explain evil?” the headline asked.  As an atheist and believer in the principles of attachment parenting, I was intrigued by both the question and the double-barreled definition of evil that accompanied it. evil [ee-vuhl] – adjective 1. morally wrong or [...]

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McDonald’s Canada’s All-Access Moms

June 22, 2011




Have you heard about the partnership between McDonald’s Canada and CityLine (a Canadian daytime television show targeted at women)?  They are working together to provide a FABULOUS opportunity for Canadian mom bloggers called McDonald’s All-Access Moms, where real moms get to “go behind the Golden Arches.” Apparently all the cool mom bloggers in Canada got [...]

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A civil post deserves a civil reply…

June 14, 2011




…a rude post, not so much. Last week, blogger Casie Stewart wrote a post ranting about an annoying family with a bunch of kids that she was stuck at the airport with. The post was a commentary on what was annoying her, accompanied by pictures of Casie, with annoyed expressions on her face or flipping [...]

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