Add to the long list of woes of any Not First-Born Child: your parents not being arsed enough to read to you. About ten months ago I noticed we were not reading much to Cormac so I put together a basket of books and placed it in an area where we congregate to remind us [...]
Archive for November, 2010
Cormac gets himself a little Montessori
Posted in cormac, goddamn craft, montessori, motherhood, motherhood bliss, toddlers on November 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Out
Posted in me, motherhood bliss, nothing, pop culture on November 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I went to a cocktail party this weekend and felt very young. A bunch of old friends and I reunited at the party. There was lots of fondness and flirting and our favourite music and we were in this hidden pocket bar. It really was our twenties in re-play. (Room 60 at Kelvin Grove Urban [...]
When parents are the ones having the meltdown
Posted in fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood, lauca, meltdown (theirs and yours), motherhood, motherhood sux on November 25, 2010 | 19 Comments »
One of the best things about Mummy Blogs or mothers blogging or whatever you want to call it is the way in which women (and men) have started sharing their darkest moments of parenting online with each other. This article by the very wonderful Anne Lamott, calling for mothers to start talking about their moments [...]
Pocket humans
Posted in cormac, motherhood, motherhood bliss, toddlers on November 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I hereby declare that toddlers are some of the most adorable creatures on the planet. They are little people in baby suits who can walk, talk (a little but not yet too much), feed themselves, and even briefly entertain themselves, but who are still impossibly small and kissey.
Gender training for your children
Posted in bratz hatred/pornification/sexualising children, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux, pop culture, preschoolers on November 23, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Holy crap is right, though not exactly a big surpise for those of you who are parents and who have watched children’s television lately or visited a toy shop. This video is fascinating. (Video link found at tigtog’s great post here).
Dissecting the trivial
Posted in feminism, pop culture, surnames on November 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Quick fact about women in the news: apparently, women feature in only about a fifth of the world’s news headlines and just ten percent of all news stories. (My guess is that if you took celebrities out of the media monitoring survey you could probably halve that number again for how often women make the [...]
Attention marketplace
Posted in vegetarians are not fun, tagged ethical milk; non-violent milk;ahimsa milk; vegetarian market demand; vegan market demand on November 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I want to buy ethical milk products. And I am prepared to pay a price reflecting the additional costs involved in kinder production methods.
Spy car
Posted in bill, cormac, motherhood, toddlers on November 22, 2010 | 5 Comments »
This car used to belong to the MI6. The kids love it. When we run out of things to do at the end of a boring day I always suggest playing in the spy car. Bill says he will fix it again soon and have it back on the road. But then bear in mind [...]
This is what a ‘Mummy Blogger’ looks like
Posted in feminism, feminist motherhood, me, motherhood, motherhood sux on November 21, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Primarily I identify as a feminist blogger but I am more than happy to wear the ‘mummy blogger’ label, too, if people choose to call me that (especially if there is a prize in it). This is significant only because ‘mummy blogger’, like so many other exclusively female terms is also used as an insult. [...]
Siblings
Posted in cormac, lauca, motherhood bliss, preschoolers, toddlers on November 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The Holy Grail: both children vaguely co-operating for a photograph at the same time.
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