by phdinparenting on September 6, 2009
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 [...]
by phdinparenting on July 13, 2009
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 [...]
by phdinparenting on March 17, 2009
In her article The Case Against Breastfeeding in The Atlantic, Hanna Rosin attacks breastfeeding from both a scientific and feminist perspective. I plan to respond to both of them, but the scientific one will take more research and I may only get to it next month. However, the feminist one is much easier to address. [...]
by phdinparenting on November 9, 2008
Thanks to Blue Milk for alerting me to this great new book that has just been released. This is a topic of great interest to me, as I’m sure you’ve all seen in my posts on feminism and this book pulls together the experiences of different women in a series of essays on feminist mothering. [...]