Guest post: This very thoughtful post is from Anna of 3 under 3. She is in her mid-twenties and lives in the Blue Mountains (Australia) with her husband and three children. Until recently all three of her children were under the age of three. 1. How would you describe your feminism in one sentence? When [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Authenticity
Posted in fatherhood, pop culture, school kids, sex of the icky parental kind on January 30, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Here is one of my all-time favourite celebrity crushes, Jarvis Cocker.. and isn’t he looking very much The Dad these days? Like a father I might run into while dropping our kids off at school. Makes me wonder about everyone’s secret lives – the people they were before they became someone’s parents. I know some [...]
Playground discrimination against fathers
Posted in bratz hatred/pornification/sexualising children, fatherhood, feminism, motherhood, your guide to perfect play dates on January 28, 2011 | 17 Comments »
This is a thought-provoking post from Daddy Dialectic… you might like to join the conversation over there where Jeremy Adam Smith is discussing results from a survey he ran recently that supports growing evidence of significant discrimination against fathers. Discrimination from whom, you may ask? The answer is other parents. And the type of discrimination [...]
Bill is the pied piper
Posted in bill, book review, fatherhood, lauca, school kids on January 27, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Bill is big with the kids. Huge. All Lauca’s friends adore him. As I once observed – Bill, it is really not fair, you don’t read a single damn parenting book and turns out your parenting is “an exciting new approach to raising children”.
Black mother jailed for using her social capital
Posted in feminism, motherhood, politics, race/anti-racism on January 27, 2011 | 15 Comments »
This has to be read to be believed: “Criminal or Great Parent: Black Mother Jailed for Sending Daughters to White School”. And the photo of that poor mother, oh my god, heart-breaking. White people are very good at using social capital, it is one of the many ways that we get ahead. Upper class and [...]
Introverts hate you
Posted in babies, bill, cormac, fatherhood, lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, toddlers, travelling with a toddler on January 25, 2011 | 16 Comments »
Bill and Lauca are both introverts. I am an extroverted introvert. We think Cormac might be an extrovert. I adore Bill and Lauca (while they can struggle with my appetite for socialising they really do understand my need for time to myself), but it is a blessed relief for me to have an extroverted child [...]
Politician parents
Posted in daycare, fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood, maternity leave, motherhood, motherhood sux, politics, work and family (im)balance on January 25, 2011 | 5 Comments »
(Cross-posted at Hoyden About Town). Check out this intriguing article from The Economist – “The Gruffulo Years: A striking number of Britain’s senior politicians have young children. That is a good thing”. The world changes much more rapidly once its leaders are personally impacted by the same ‘small things’ the rest of us have long [...]
Hiding out
Posted in cormac, motherhood, motherhood bliss, nothing, pop culture, toddlers on January 24, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I have some fierce writing deadlines on my tail so a quick session in procrastination is called for. Growing up surrounded by photographers. You, too, can have Darcy’s proposal on your couch. Step 1. Buy the proposal tea towel from here. Step 2. Beg your mother-in-law to sew it into a cushion for you. Step [...]
What is the Tiger Mother debate really about?
Posted in feminism, motherhood, motherhood sux, race/anti-racism on January 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
May-Lee Chai’s thoughtful post argues that the debate has played upon racism and is fundamentally about classism.
Bad things come in threes
Posted in motherhood, motherhood sux, sex of the icky parental kind, toddlers on January 22, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Accidentally put cat shit in the washing machine (don’t ask) and then proceeded to spread it all through my washing and around the washing machine bowl. Was really something to clean up. Cormac has started idly turning all the hotplates on at the stove when you are not looking. This time he managed to blow [...]
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