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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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Should we parent boys and girls differently?

February 16, 2010




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 [...]

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IComLeavWe: Day 1

November 21, 2009




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 [...]

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The bully who defined me

August 1, 2009




I was four years old. I had just started preschool. I was excited, interested, curious, I think. I knew a few kids in my class, the ones  who lived on my street or whose parents were friends with my parents, but there were many new faces too.  During the first few days of school the [...]

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