This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. How Older Parenthood Will Upend American Society by Judith Shulevitz of The New Republic discusses the scary consequences of the grayest generation, but says that when women enjoy the same access to education and professional advancement […]
Lyla Cicero is all for equal parenting, but a part of her still wanted her kids to think of her as #1. Only when my twins were 20 months old did they master the correct use of the words “mama” and “dada.” They took quite a long time to even say these words, despite beginning […]
Constantly living your life in fear keeps you from truly living. Today while perusing the sale rack at the “spa store” inside the hotel where I’m staying to teach for 10 days in Palm Springs, I had a conversation with a good friend of mine who was recently engaged. As I let glossy price tags […]
Alyssa Robinson proves that even some of today’s feminists adored pink and girly gifts when they were children. Please take a moment to stifle your gag reflexes, because I’m about to take you down gender normative lane. I’m going to take you back to the 1990s, when I was all cute and tiny, and when […]
As an adult, Chanel Dubofsky now sees that many of the lessons she was taught as a child were products of her mother’s and grandmother’s own insecurity. I think often of what my mother would say about this life I’m living. I think about it when I’m at home, (where I live with many people, […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Why Are Women Scared To Call Themselves Feminists? by Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon.com says Katy Perry and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy proudly declare they’re not feminists at a time we need them more than ever. 2. Growing […]
What works for one parent, may not work for all. But learning from your mistakes should be universal. “In the ’70s, we played outside, ran around, rode our bikes without helmets, and if we talked back to our Dad we got our asses beat. Click like if you think spanking never hurt you.” (Paraphrased from […]
Ashley Lauren Samsa applauds a young girl’s petition to the CEO of Hasbro to start featuring boys in its Easy-Bake Oven promotional material. My husband and I don’t have children yet so, fortunately, we are able to put off the struggle to explain to relatives and friends why we want our kids to receive whatever […]
Annamarya Scaccia says she’s an amazing person today because she grew up with two moms. I remember when my mother came out to me. I don’t remember the date or the time. I don’t even remember my exact age (I was either 10 or 11). I do remember that we were in the basement of […]
Tina Traster knew early on that something wasn’t right with her adopted daughter, but admitting it meant possibly admitting that she’d made a mistake. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt make it look easy. They adopt kids from all corners of the world and the media broadcasts images of perfect Kodak moments. They’d have you believing […]
If Emily Rapp was a man, would people still ask her annoying questions about writing about her terminally ill son? Since I began writing about the experience of parenting my son Ronan, who is almost 3 years old and dying of a terminal illness, I’ve been asked this question several times: Don’t you feel strange […]
Who says in-laws can’t get along? When my husband, Anders, proposed to me in May 2008, we didn’t have much time to celebrate on our own. There was too much else to do; after all, our undergraduate commencement ceremony was only five days later. We also knew that at some point in the middle of […]
