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This is not a typical book for me to review, so I won’t follow my typical book review format. LIFE with Mother, by the editors of LIFE books, is a beautiful compilation of photographs of mothers and their children, accompanied by quotes about mothering.
The almost 100 page collection includes:
regular people and famous people
old photographs and [...]
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On May 17, I participated in the Fem 2.0 chat on twitter. The topic of discussion was mommies and feminism. We talked about a lot of things, but one thing I said towards the end of the chat seemed to resonate with a lot of people. I also think it is an important point, so [...]
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For the past few days, I’ve been trying to think of a good idea for a Mother’s Day post. My mind has been blank. so instead I want to share with you a fabulous post written by my friend Jennifer from Barely Knit Together. This is motherhood.
To My Daughter on Mother’s Day (Sappiness ahead, consider [...]
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For my first blog post of the New Year, I have decided to give back to my followers. I asked on twitter for people to send me links to their underappreciated posts from 2008. Things that they wrote that didn’t get the exposure or recognition that they deserved. I am using this post to give [...]
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Patience, patience, patience. I received a question from Lizzardbits, who has been very patient waiting for my answer while I was off enjoying myself on vacation with my family. Here is her question:
I’d like to be a more patient parent—to slooooooow doooowwwwnnn any tips?
It turns out she isn’t the only one that wants to be [...]
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How does 12 weeks of maternity leave at full pay and up to a year at 60 percent pay sound? How about a 98 percent of newborns being exclusively breastfed when they leave the hospital and 72 percent exclusively breastfed at 4 months of age? Consider an infant mortality rate of 5 per 1000 live [...]
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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. [...]
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To my darling boy,
You’re turning 4 this week. I know I’m supposed to say something like, “where has the time gone?” or “it seems like just yesterday we were bringing you home from the hospital“. But that isn’t how I feel. In fact, I feel like you’ve been a part of my life for a [...]
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I want choice.
I want the right to choose whether to get married or not. If I choose to marry, I want the right to go back on that choice. If I choose not to marry, I don’t want to be considered a lesser person, given less advantageous tax status, or be considered to be “living [...]
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