It pays to listen when your toddler comes back inside to tell you something. While you’re finishing that email off take a moment to look up and acknowledge him. Good listening involves more than a few vacant “mmmms” as you stare into your computer screen. Otherwise you might find your toddler just drops what he [...]
Archive for November, 2010
Parenting lesson for the day
Posted in cormac, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, toddlers on November 11, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Apartment
Posted in cormac, lauca, me, preschoolers, toddlers on November 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I still can’t believe that you offered us your lovely inner-city apartment to use while you are overseas. Are you mad? (We miss you).
l’art pour l’art
Posted in bill, fatherhood, goddamn craft, lauca, montessori, motherhood, motherhood bliss, preschoolers on November 8, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Image: Lauca and her friends at a painting class From an email exchange with my brother. My brother: If the kids make any Xmas decorations this year I would love some for my tree. Me: Expect a parcel in the mail. Asking if these kids make Xmas decorations is like asking if a bear shits [...]
Mind. Gutter.
Posted in motherhood bliss, preschoolers, sex of the icky parental kind on November 7, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Children’s books are frequently surreal, especially without context. The other day I walked past a room and heard Lauca reading some children’s book aloud – What’s in the River? by Janeen Brian – and I had to stop and listen because … WTF? (Imagine this passage being read slowly, as a five year does when [...]
Toddlers swarming
Posted in cormac, motherhood bliss, toddlers, your guide to perfect play dates on November 7, 2010 | 6 Comments »
What do you call the children of two cousins? Second cousins, third cousins? Anyway, whatever that is, they are that. Born two weeks apart, Cormac and he have the same brown eyes and the same pinchy fingers.
UPDATE on the Bring Down the Little Birds competition
Posted in book review on November 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I pulled out two winners for copies of Bring Down the Little Birds (using a random number generator) – the winners were charlotteotter and bellambita – but that still leaves about fifty of you who entered and didn’t win. I know, life, unfair, etc. I mentioned the high level of interest to the publisher and [...]
Mother as politician
Posted in motherhood, politics on November 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The evolution of the whole ‘Mum’ identity in politics is completely fascinating if not also repellent. You can read Judith Warner’s entire piece, “The New Momism” here. It is a pretty thought-provoking article. There was a time when words like “mom” or “mama” weren’t necessarily associated with the traits needed for good political judgment or [...]
Not so stupid
Posted in babies, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, pregnancy and birth on November 2, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Predictably, you might think, I detest the whole ‘baby brain’ idea. So this from here caught my eye this week. The study, which appears in this month’s issue of the journal Behavioral Neuroscience finds that women’s brains grow in the months after they give birth, leaving them smarter than they were before. O.K., O.K., I [...]
What are we doing this for?
Posted in feminism, feminist motherhood, maternity leave, motherhood, politics, Uncategorized on November 2, 2010 | 6 Comments »
A fascinating question from Andrea O’Reilly: While I do believe that empowered mothers are more effective mothers and that anti-sexist childrearing and maternal activism are worthwhile aims, I still wonder and worry why the rhetoric of rationalization has become the strategy of choice among feminist activists and scholars today and why our campaigns for social [...]
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