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What Toddlers Can Teach Us

January 15, 2012




Today I’m welcoming fellow Ottawa-blogger Rebecca from A Little Bit of Momsense for the last guest post of the Carnival of Toddlers with her thoughts about the toddler years. I think the toddler years have an unfair reputation. Everyone speaks about the ‘terrible twos’ and threes with great stress and I get it.  It’s an [...]

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Overworked, Debt-Laden Gen X Opting For No Kids

October 26, 2011




I originally posted this last week at Care2.com, but wanted to have a discussion about it with my readers too. I hope you’ll chime in with your thoughts. According to a new study by the Center for Work-Life Policy, 43 percent of Gen X women and 32 percent of Gen X men do not have [...]

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Motherhood Activism, Advocacy, Agency

May 12, 2011




Right now I’m in Toronto at the Motherhood Activism, Advocacy, Agency Conference organized by the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement. According to the conference description, this conference: …will examine the subject of maternal empowerment from the perspective of both scholarship and activism, drawing from and building upon Motherhood Studies research and the activism [...]

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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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The Happiest Mom (New Book Release by Meagan Francis)

March 21, 2011




When Julian was little and I started spending time on attachment parenting forums, everyone was raving about Harvey Karp’s Happiest Baby on the Block. An anti-thesis to many of the baby trainers and baby schedulers, this book offered suggestions for creating a “fourth-trimester” like environment to help ease your baby’s transition into the world.  There [...]

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Outrage: When parents cross the line

January 19, 2011




Where’s the line? The imaginary line. The line between “do what is best for your family” and “that is cruel, abusive, neglectful.” Where is it?  Do you have one in your head? That dividing line between “not my cup of tea” and “wrong, wrong, wrong”? I do. Sometimes. It shifts and moves a bit, but [...]

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Nature? Nurture? Neither? More?

December 15, 2010




After writing my last post, I had a lot of interesting side discussions about the old nature versus nurture debate. Some of those discussions happened in the comments on my last post. Some of them happened on twitter. Some of them happened in person. While I think I have made it fairly clear that I [...]

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Parenting styles to the extreme

December 2, 2010




When I wrote last week about Erica Jong’s essay on attachment parenting, a lot of people commented both here and elsewhere that one of the big problems in her article is that she confused attachment parenting with helicopter parenting. Certainly, the two are not the same. In fact, they belong on different axes altogether. While [...]

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Let’s throw the assumptions out with the bathwater

November 21, 2010




I’m late to the party, I know. It is a party I didn’t want to attend. I read Erica Jong‘s essay in the Wall Street Journal on the Madness of Motherhood and I yawned. Ho hum. She isn’t saying anything that Hanna Rosin, Margaret Wente, and plenty of others haven’t already said. She sounds like [...]

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What kind of mother are you? Oppressed? Empowered? Feminist? Other?

September 17, 2010




Every once in a while I pick up my copy of Feminist Mothering (edited by Andrea O’Reilly) and read or re-read some of it. I’ve never read it cover to cover, but I read bits of it when I am reflecting on my own mothering or my own feminism. In the introduction to the book, [...]

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