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Teaching a Child to Refer to her Genitalia as the C Word (Guest Post)

February 6, 2012




I’ve been a fan of Renee from Womanist Musings’ (@womanistmusings) work for a long time and loved having the opportunity to connect with her recently on Skype as we filmed her segment of my toddler years video. I’ve been begging her to guest post for me for a while and am happy to finally have [...]

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Why SEEING breastfeeding on Facebook, and in real life, is important (Guest Post)

February 3, 2012




I’m heading in the direction of slightly warmer weather this week and will be bringing you a few guest posts from authors and activists whose voices and work I adore. First up is breastfeeding advocate Emma Kwasnica talking about the continued harassment of breastfeeding women by facebook staff (which I first wrote about more than [...]

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Toddler Survival 101

December 17, 2011




Time for another great Carnival of Toddlers guest post. I’ve always enjoyed the intelligent perspective that Natasha, Natural Urban Mama, brings to the attachment parenting world on her blog and in her tweets. I finally got to meet her at a conference in Toronto in October and now I’m pleased to welcome her to my [...]

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Toddler World

December 14, 2011




Today, as part of the Carnival of Toddlers, I’m pleased to share a guest post by Bolaji Williams from www.ithinkyoushould.com about empowering our children. “Anyone can lead,” even our toddlers. Please join me in welcoming Bolaji. Toddlers are fascinating human beings for a variety of reasons, not least because so much of the ways in [...]

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The Walking Wounded (Guest Post)

October 14, 2011




I am away at the Blissdom Canada conference this week. After an interesting discussion with Karen Bayne (@karenebayne) on twitter last week, I asked her if she would be willing to expand on her thoughts in a blog post. Luckily she agreed and here it is. Please welcome Karen to the blog. —– Last week [...]

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Can an IBCLC be a source of objective information about formula feeding?

October 2, 2011




In recent discussions about whether formula companies are a good source of advice on breastfeeding, my emphatic answer was NO! A few people chimed in and asked who could provide objective, evidence-based, judgment free advice on infant feeding. Could it come from a lactation consultant or are they too biased toward breastfeeding? I put the [...]

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Summer Enjoyment Guide to Eating with Kids

August 9, 2011




This is a guest post by Kristin from Peace Love and Muesli, a great blog with plenty of healthy ideas for families. She probably wins the prize for the blogger I’ve known the longest. We were both heading out to BlogHer ’11 last week and she agreed to write a fun guest post for my [...]

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What Difference does Difference Make? An Appreciation and Review of “Equally Shared Parenting”

May 25, 2011




Today I’m happy to welcome Andrea Doucet for another guest post on my blog. In this post she is sharing her thoughts on equally shared parenting and the book on that topic by Amy Vachon and Marc Vachon. Twenty-one years ago, my life was very focused on equally shared parenting. I was a new doctoral [...]

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Mother’s Day Guest Post: Are you “still the mother”?

May 7, 2011




I had the pleasure of having coffee with recently with Andrea Doucet, a sociology professor at Carleton University who focuses, among other things, on feminism and fathering . This week I’ll be featuring a series of guest posts by Andrea, who has been studying these issues for the last twenty years both academically and in [...]

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What revolution? Why haven’t women pushed harder for caring work to be valued?

March 30, 2011




When I first got involved in blogging in the Spring of 2008 (coming up on 3 years), I started looking for other attachment parenting and feminist mothering blogs. The first feminist mothering blog that I came across and one that still holds a prominent place in my RSS reader today is blue milk. When I [...]

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