I wish my daughter didn’t sit and stew on bad things for a week at a time before she brought them to me. Like tonight, she told me that when we were last at the public pool some boys taunted her saying her friend has skin like poo. I shouldn’t be as surprised as I [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Sunny, with a chance of racism
Posted in body image, lauca, motherhood, preschoolers, race/anti-racism on January 31, 2010 | 9 Comments »
This could be a Hallmark card
Posted in babies, motherhood, motherhood sux, pregnancy and birth on January 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »
After arriving an hour and a quarter late to a babyshower what do you say in five minutes or less to someone who is about to become a mother? Well in my case I rambled a bit about the bleakness of motherhood in an attempt to warn her about the worst moments ahead while all [...]
But isn’t it rewarding?
Posted in babies, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux on January 29, 2010 | 25 Comments »
I don’t know if ‘Emm’ is just stirring the pot or if this is a genuine question on her part (and I so don’t want to start a flame war) but when I wrote a post yesterday on the work involved in returning to work after having a baby I received this comment: motherhood must [...]
The work of going to work
Posted in babies, cormac, feminism, maternity leave, motherhood, motherhood sux, work and family (im)balance on January 28, 2010 | 5 Comments »
The time is drawing nearer when I will return to work. It is beginning to haunt me. I don’t think the pain will be quite as sharp this time as it was with Lauca. Not because I won’t grieve the seperation from a baby as much but because this time I know life goes on. [...]
Experiments in radically downsized living
Posted in downsized living, motherhood, travelling with a toddler, work and family (im)balance on January 27, 2010 | 10 Comments »
(Cross-posted at Hoyden About Town). I find these kinds of stories fascinating. People choosing to ‘live poor’ (though of course with the capacity to leave when they want to, and also while equipped with the education, networks and self-esteem that a life of opportunity has bestowed upon them) – in order to liberate themselves from [...]
Small world
Posted in lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, preschoolers on January 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
As far as children’s birthday parties go I have seen a wide variety in my few short years on the circuit. (Though to be fair, lots of fairy parties). For obvious reasons my favourites have been those that catered as much to the adults as to the children, or even those that tilted a little [...]
no clean feed
Posted in politics, this moment on January 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This week is Blackout Week. From Monday January 25th to Friday January 29th Aussie websites will turn their lights out – “black out” – to inform Australians about the threat of imposed Internet censorship. Need to learn more? See here.
Guest post: Raised by a feminist father
Posted in 10 feminist motherhood questions, 10 things, co-sleeping, feminism, feminist motherhood, guest post, motherhood, work and family (im)balance on January 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Guest post: Flo blogs at Black dog ate my homework . Clever blog name huh? She lives with her partner and their young son and she writes mostly about the difficulties she encounters living with a partner who has chronic depression. Here is her response to my 10 questions about your feminist motherhood. Of course [...]
On ageing
Posted in feminism, me on January 23, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Having recently turned an age to which the only reference in pop music lyrics as far as I know is in a song about suicide, can I just say that my ageing is official and that I am (thus far) calmly embracing thirty-seven years*. Also, I very much like this quote from female author, Lionel [...]
Meet “feminist childbirth studies”, the blog
Posted in 10 feminist motherhood questions, 10 things, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood on January 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A great new blog find (ie. Feminist Childbirth Studies) and the latest response to my 10 Feminist Motherhood Questions: 5. What makes your mothering feminist? How does your approach differ from a non-feminist mother’s? How does feminism impact upon your parenting? That’s an interesting series of questions. I suppose our parenting is feminist in a [...]
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