More from the series here. Mine: I enjoy least the special kind of crazy you get when you don’t eat. I enjoy least your introverted kill-joy ways with disliking big, crowded, lively events until five minutes before we are due to leave when you finally ‘warm up’. The way you glare at anyone trying to [...]
Archive for October, 2010
10 things about Lauca aged 5 and a half
Posted in 10 things, 10 things about lauca, fatherhood, lauca, montessori, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, preschoolers on October 31, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Surely the longest bow ever drawn
Posted in feminism, rape/sexual abuse on October 30, 2010 | 8 Comments »
This article on brisbanetimes.com.au: The state government is urging Queensland clothing stores not to sell a t-shirt depicting a woman bound and gagged, with the slogan ‘‘Relax, it’s just sex’’. Minister for Women Karen Struthers today called on retailers to immediately remove the item, saying it suggested “sexual assaults on women are acceptable’’. “The shirts, [...]
Everything you can do I want to try too
Posted in cormac, lauca, motherhood bliss, preschoolers, toddlers on October 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Bill has talents
Posted in bill, fatherhood, lauca, motherhood bliss, preschoolers, work and family (im)balance on October 28, 2010 | 10 Comments »
It is Bill’s work-from-home day of the week and I am leaving for my own workplace when I remember that it is Halloween dress-up day at preschool. As I run out the door I give Bill a quick briefing on the challenge ahead for him. None of Lauca’s dress-up clothes much fit her anymore. She [...]
Why can’t working mothers negotiate better at home?
Posted in feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux, work and family (im)balance on October 28, 2010 | 24 Comments »
Interesting article here in The New York Times, though nothing particularly new in it about the work and family balance and why it isn’t working so well for women. Telling women they have reached parity is like telling an unemployed worker the recession is over. It isn’t true until it feels true. That’s because measuring [...]
Found pretties
Posted in motherhood, motherhood bliss on October 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I just discovered Doodlemum’s Blog after she commented on a post here. Her illustrated blog is so lovely and sweetly observed that you should really know about it. Image credit: Doodlemum.
One for the co-sleepers
Posted in co-sleeping, motherhood, motherhood sux on October 25, 2010 | 30 Comments »
I am not saying we don’t still love it, but for those among you who are co-sleepers and who have older children can I ask… when did it end and how did it end?
Some things to think about while you hang out the washing
Posted in feminism, politics, pop culture, rape/sexual abuse, work and family (im)balance on October 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Think about the feminist politics of having a cleaner.This is purely hypothetical for me at this time, we’re on way too tight a budget for cleaners at the present because bourgeois confession: we have a nanny. I have had cleaners in the past though, and they were both white, and male, which is not to [...]
Extreme breastfeeding in novels
Posted in breastfeeding, cormac, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux, toddlers on October 25, 2010 | 17 Comments »
I am reading Emma Donoghue’s Room at the moment. It is one of those novels that everyone is suddenly talking about. Narrated by a five year old, it is about he and his mother’s very isolated life. The book has an extraordinary premise, which I won’t give away here, but there is another element to [...]
Shoplifting
Posted in cormac, lauca, montessori, motherhood, motherhood sux, toddlers on October 24, 2010 | 21 Comments »
I lost the toddler the other day. We finished the grocery shopping and then parked ourselves in a goodwill shop to sort through children’s books. Almost nothing but shit on their shelves unfortunately and definitely not worth the trouble that followed. I thought Cormac was pottering about with us near the shopping trolley but when [...]
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