Imagine if you were told that your child was in a group facing the highest suicide attempt rates in the world. And perhaps even more frightening, you were also told that outside of your family your child’s life would often be at risk because people would want to kill or seriously harm your child. It [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Imagine it is your child
Posted in body image, fatherhood, feminism, GLBTI, motherhood, motherhood sux, raising daughters, raising sons on December 15, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Another world
Posted in motherhood, motherhood bliss on December 14, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Sometimes I like to get lost in other people’s homes, particularly when mine needs all this cleaning and/or organising at the moment and other people’s homes are so nicely photographed. This is my current pick. I live with flannery o’kafka at the moment, in Glasgow. I sound a little stalker-ish.
Outside America
Posted in motherhood, motherhood sux, race/anti-racism on December 14, 2011 | 11 Comments »
How many of the Top 100 Mommy Blogs chosen by Babble are not American? I ask this because how does ‘The Funniest’ not include the English blog, Whoopee and the ‘Most Useful’ not include the Canadian blog, PhD in Parenting? That’s not to say that Babble can please everyone or that there aren’t more American [...]
Co-sleeping: the “H”
Posted in babies, co-sleeping, fatherhood, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, toddlers on December 14, 2011 | 6 Comments »
From co-sleeping positions at How To Be A Dad: Every parent knows this letter. Fears it! It’s the H. Some may say it stands for “horrible” but don’t listen to them, they’re just whitewashing it. It stands for Hell. And it’s the kind of night you’re both going to have. This was one of the [...]
On vanity and princess culture
Posted in body image, bratz hatred/pornification/sexualising children, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux, pop culture, raising daughters, school kids on December 14, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Peggy Orenstein at Bitch (interviewed by M.M. Adjarian) on the relationship between vanity and princess culture, and ultimately the erosion of self-esteem: [The] insistence on defining girls and women by how we look and how we relate sexually is not only a way to keep [us] in our place, but a way we keep ourselves [...]
Into orbit: expat parenting experiences in Iraq (part iv)
Posted in motherhood, preschoolers, toddlers, travelling with a toddler on December 13, 2011 | 6 Comments »
This is part of a series on my mother’s experience of parenting in Iraq. Our family lived in Iraq for a couple of years during my childhood. We were the only Australians in the country at the time. My brother and I were roughly the same ages as my children are now. I thought it [...]
Needs more sparkles
Posted in goddamn craft, lauca, motherhood bliss, school kids on December 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Lauca’s favourite window at the we miss you magic land exhibition.
Dress up
Posted in cormac, motherhood bliss, toddlers on December 10, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Cormac, age two and three quarters.
Boys on bed
Posted in bill, cormac, fatherhood, motherhood bliss, pop culture, toddlers on December 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This is Cormac, tired but excited after his first trip ever to see a band in concert. It was the Wiggles, with his father. Bill: We’re both wearing jeans and black t-shirts to this thing. Too much? Me: No, it’s perfect. The universal concert-going uniform.
In the Drawing Room
Posted in goddamn craft, lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, school kids on December 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Lauca in the Drawing Room at the Matisse exhibition. Or heaven, as it seen to be to art-obsessed Lauca. Trying her hand at some Matisse-inspired techniques for still life drawing.
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