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Dear Daughter

January 23, 2011




I’ve written a fair bit on this blog about the things I want to teach my children about sex, love, tolerance, religion, death, war, history, food, consumerism, feminism, empathy and more. So often it seems they are so busy being kids that they don’t have the time or the interest in listening. I try to [...]

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You are not a perfect parent…

March 24, 2009




…but you should be a confident one. I’ve read over and over again about the impact that a mother’s mental health and frame of mind can have on her children. Children of happy mothers are more likely to develop high self-esteem and are less likely to be anxious and worried. Moms dealing with postpartum depression  [...]

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Flaunt Your Crunch!

September 5, 2008




Do you feel smothered by the mainstream? Are you embarrassed to admit that you are an attached parent or crunchy mom when surrounded by the formula-feeding, sleep training, SUV stroller pushing moms? Are you sick and tired of getting unsolicited advice that goes against everything you believe in and insults the parenting choices you have made? Have [...]

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Bias against boys?

July 12, 2008




I am privileged to have grown up after many of the advances of feminism were ingrained in our society. I have been given every opportunity in life that my brothers had. Situations where I have felt a slight due to my gender and few and far between and can be chalked up to the ignorance [...]

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