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After posting about Disney princesses yesterday, I was chatting with Rebecca from A Little Bit of Momsense and she pointed out that she was She-Ra for Halloween when she was little. I responded saying that I was once Wonder Woman. The conversation got me thinking about the female heroines of my youth and I realized [...]
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My partner is a stay-at-home dad and he sometimes fills me in on the deep conversations he has during the day with our little girl. Ones like this:
Emma: Daddy, what are you thinking about?
Daddy: I’m thinking about putting the tiles on the backsplash. What are you thinking about?
Emma: I’m always thinking about princesses.
Such is the [...]
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Most days, I’m proud to be Canadian. Whether I’m talking about our health care system, our maternity and parental leave programs, feminist leaders, or other topics close to my heart, my country usually makes me proud (even if it isn’t perfect). Today, however, my heart sunk. I was hit with bad news and then slapped [...]
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Cathy from Nurture Store asked me whether we should parent boys and girls differently. In a perfect world, I think there would be very few differences in terms of how we should parent boys and girls. As I wrote in my post on the Bias Against Boys:
Are boys are girls really that different?
There are two [...]
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Yesterday I read and commented on a post where a woman, mother, and published author was asking breastfeeding moms why they can’t cover up. She wanted to know why women can’t just be discreet. That led me to look up the word “discreet” in the dictionary and interestingly Merriam Webster says it means:
Having or showing [...]
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I’ve been aware of Carla Moquin’s fabulous work on the Babies at Work initiative and the Parenting in the Workplace Institute since she started commenting on my blog over a year ago. She has helped numerous companies to set up babies at work programs, has written books called How to Start a Babies-at-Work Program and [...]
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This is day one of IComLeavWe on speed. As I make my way through over 100 blogs this week, reconnecting and leaving comments, I hope to feature a couple of posts each day and also list the posts that I commented on.
Featured posts: No you don’t, yes you can – lessons for our daughters
Our role, [...]
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When helping my children to make choices, I find myself motivated by several things. Things that often tug my reasoning in wildly different directions. Things that may make me say one thing, when I wish I’d said another. Things that make me mad at society for being so petty, so cruel, so stupid.
I want my [...]
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I read a lot of blogs. A lot of them I read so that I can get my daily head nodding exercise. Yup. I agree. You said it so well. Fabulous. Some of them I read because they write about things I don’t know much about and would like to learn more about. A few [...]
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Image credit: sweetbeetandgreenbean in flickr
Blood
We all need it.
Most of us make enough of it and don’t lose too much of it.
But some people will need donated blood due to medical conditions, accidents or surgery.
Breast Milk
Babies need it.
Most women make enough of it to satisfy their baby’s needs.
But some people will need to feed their [...]
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