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Is Blogging your Santa Claus?

October 22, 2011




Years ago, a little girl asked the editor of the New York Sun an important question. Virginia wrote: DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, ‘If you see it in THE SUN it’s so.’ Please tell me the truth; is there a [...]

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Conferences, Conferences…

July 14, 2011




Looks like I’m entering conference season. I think I’ll be at about one conference per month from July through to November. I hope to catch up with some of you at some of the conferences that I’m attending. Women’s Worlds Women’s Worlds is a huge international feminist conference that is held in a different city [...]

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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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Outrage: When parents cross the line

January 19, 2011




Where’s the line? The imaginary line. The line between “do what is best for your family” and “that is cruel, abusive, neglectful.” Where is it?  Do you have one in your head? That dividing line between “not my cup of tea” and “wrong, wrong, wrong”? I do. Sometimes. It shifts and moves a bit, but [...]

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What interested you and riled you up in 2010

December 30, 2010




I recently started using a new analytics program called PostRank. Unlike regular stats programs that tell you how many people viewed your post, it tells you how engaged people were with your post. Did they share it on facebook or twitter or somewhere else? Did they leave a comment? Did they link back to it [...]

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PhD in Parenting Reader Survey Results

November 17, 2010




Earlier this month, I posted a reader survey for a period of one week. I was extremely grateful to receive 835 responses to the survey, which is very useful to me in better understanding how people access my blog and what they want to see on it. Although some of you said that you find [...]

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Unsilent

November 2, 2010




Yesterday a lot of people on twitter and facebook vowed to be silent for 24 hours as part of Communication Shutdown, a global fundraiser for autism. I’m not entirely sure if the intent was to raise money (paying for people to shut up?) or to raise awareness (by someone’s conspicuous absence?) but I do wonder [...]

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Uninspired

October 15, 2010




I want the words to flow, but right now they don’t. My daughter Emma has been having a rough time with some changes at school. All of my emotional energy has been poured into that. I think we have turned a corner now and things are improving, but I’m still waiting for my words and [...]

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The high-fructose corn syrup bloggers: A symptom of a larger problem?

October 7, 2010




Almost exactly one year after the Nestle Family bloggers, we now have the high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) bloggers, otherwise known as the “Corn Sugar” bloggers (note: HFCS is known as glucose/fructose in Canada). Like Nestle a year ago, the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) invited a bunch of bloggers to listen to their one-sided version of [...]

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Mothers shouldn’t have opinions

May 20, 2010




I should be barefoot, pregnant and tied to the kitchen sink. Or, as they say here in Germany, “Kinder, Küche, Kirche” (children, kitchen, church). I should spend my entire day, every day, gazing adoringly into the eyes of my children. Or so they say. In my post on 50 reasons for breastfeeding anytime, anywhere, jenny [...]

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