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I caved…

April 5, 2011




Do you remember in high school when the cool kids were trying to pressure you to smoke? To do drugs? To nail the teacher with spitballs? Yeah…those were the days. Except, not really. The cool kids didn’t want to have anything to do with me. But in addition to that, I didn’t really want to [...]

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Parenting styles to the extreme

December 2, 2010




When I wrote last week about Erica Jong’s essay on attachment parenting, a lot of people commented both here and elsewhere that one of the big problems in her article is that she confused attachment parenting with helicopter parenting. Certainly, the two are not the same. In fact, they belong on different axes altogether. While [...]

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Typology of the Bad Mother

June 6, 2009




There has been a lot of talk lately about bad mothers. Is bad good or is bad bad? I linked to one of the discussions on this issue in my post yesterday and the newspapers seem peppered with them the past few days too. I think part of the problem with the whole conversation is [...]

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Things you should read…

June 5, 2009




I’ve read some things this week that made me nod. Things that made my jaw drop. Things that you should read. They aren’t really connected in any logical way that I could tie together, so I’ll just throw them at you. Go read them! Ready to piss off a mom blogger? Seek a pregnant woman [...]

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