by phdinparenting on February 7, 2009
This is the first in what I hope will be a series of posts on where we got off track. By that I mean where society has gone in the wrong direction in terms of our child rearing practices, with potentially detrimental effects on our children and society in general. I support the rights of [...]
by phdinparenting on January 7, 2009
Back in October, I participated in the Breastfeeding Challenge for the 3rd time. This wonderful event is organized raise awareness about breastfeeding and to make mothers more confident breastfeeding in public.
Emma Kwasnica of Montreal also participated in the challenge while tandem nursing her two children and was shown in an article on the challenge in [...]
by phdinparenting on December 30, 2008
Let’s start with a bit of history. Back in June 2007, a facebook group was created called “Hey facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene (Official petition to facebook)” after Kelli Roman (see Time interview with Kelli) had breastfeeding pictures removed from the site. The membership of the group grew exponentially, reaching 6,000 members by August 2007, [...]
by phdinparenting on December 26, 2008
For one day on December 27, mothers around the world are changing their profile pictures to breastfeeding pictures to protest facebook deleting breastfeeding pictures and threatening to delete the accounts of the people that post them:
Facebook continues to classify breastfeeding photos as obscene content. They continue to arbitrarily remove these photos from member albums and [...]