January 2012
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Boobie Time: Not Exactly Wordess Wednesday →
Let’s get breastfeeding back on Sesame Street!
December 2011
11 posts
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Learning Life Skills: List of Household Tasks for... →
What a great resource to get kids involved! I love seeing how much Mikko wants to participate in household tasks and how he continually challenges himself to do more. See this related post on NPN: http://naturalparentsnetwork.com/building-connections/
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Yay for Home!: New Years Revolution →
via Good Googs, so I’ll be extra lazy and quote her recommendation:
the best post about new years I’ve read
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Baby’s Occupy Movement | SlightlyCrunchyMama.com →
The Occupy Movement, baby-style
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Cosleeping Safety and the Milwaukee Billboards |... →
Helpful breakdown of the Milwaukee stats, investigating the divides along race and poverty lines, plus information on cosleeping AND crib safety.
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Turning the Negative Into a Positive « Liberated... →
Love this post and the accompanying Hathor comic. Why not ask “Why not”? Why not say “yes” more?
I catch some flak from my family for trying to parent in this way: being responsive rather than giving a kneejerk no to everything — you know, the be-in-control-at-all-times method of parenting. But it’s worth the price of a little outside misunderstanding to know my...
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When Roller Derby Girls breastfeed « blue milk →
Love.
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“The Best Mom” is not a Title I Earn Every day →
Ok, bear with me here as I explain the backstory. I wrote this post — “Why I am not as fabulous a parent as my blog suggests“ — wherein I talk about, well, just that, plus feature some pictures of EasyLunchboxes because combining two items in one compartment was the trigger for this huge tantrum that almost made me start tantruming in tandem.
Kelly Lester, the owner of EasyLunchboxes,...
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Momma Jorje: Monday Minimalist: Giftmas →
From utilities to wrapping paper to holiday cards, great ways to keep expenses down at the holidays!
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I’m Guessing Victoria’s Secret Wasn’t Stretch... →
Love this post on the Victoria’s Secret catalog vs. real-life mothers, particularly the part where she muses on which clothes are nursing-friendly, and then this:
I began imagining the catalog with real-life moms as models, something like a Victoria’s Secret meets The Shape of a Mother. In this imaginary catalog, stretch marks and green and purple veins radiate from the tops of push-up...
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Adventures in Mommyhood: Mommy Outnumbered: Dark... →
What hunger really looks like in a U.S. family.