There is a sudden serious spike in my visitor numbers and no corresponding incoming links, and it is January, one of the laziest months in the year on the interwebs. Why so many of you all of a sudden, who are you, how did you get here, who referred you? Lurkers de-lurk.
Archive for January, 2010
So, enough about me, let’s talk about you
Posted in this moment on January 9, 2010 | 29 Comments »
The retrospective
Posted in aboriginal australia, babies, bill, body image, book review, bratz hatred/pornification/sexualising children, breastfeeding, child hatred bigotry, co-sleeping, cormac, daycare, fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood, GLBTI, kindergarten, lauca, maternity leave, me, miscarriage, montessori, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, politics, pregnancy and birth, preschoolers, race/anti-racism, rape/sexual abuse, sex of the icky parental kind, sexy breastfeeding?, surnames, the first year of motherhood, this moment, toddlers, travelling with a toddler, work and family (im)balance, your guide to perfect play dates, yummy mummy on January 6, 2010 | 8 Comments »
The retrospective collection: biggest hits, sentimental favourites, and experimental B-sides. blue milk started as a New Year’s resolution. Very oddly this became my all time most viewed post. I wrote about how much I hated Bratz dolls. They don’t even exist now. I had a rough first year of motherhood. I didn’t fit in. We [...]
Can you be a little more patronising?
Posted in feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux, pop culture on January 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
For the record, hearing your voice is probably not all your mother has ever wanted in her life. We have some other things going on too.
Parenting adult children. Good god, when does it end?
Posted in book review, motherhood on January 3, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A review of Don’t Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with Your Adult Children by Dr Ruth Nemzoff What better time to review a book on managing parent relationships with adult children than right after Christmas? Doesn’t every loving family celebrate the holidays with a misunderstanding and some terse conversations? Just us? Ruth [...]
Actually, it is pronounced Mum-bo
Posted in feminism, motherhood, motherhood sux on January 1, 2010 | 7 Comments »
The other day I blew out a youngish salesman for calling me “Mumsy” when he attempted to sell me raffle tickets in a large shopping centre. “Hey Mum”. “DID YOU JUST CALL ME…. MUM?!” “Yes.. well, Mumsy”. “WELL YOU ARE NOT GOING TO SELL ANY FUCKING TICKETS CALLING ME THAT”. Fortunately our little interaction ended [...]
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