Work on one side, kids on the other? Illustration by winnifred xoxo via Flickr The issue of balance is in the news again. Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic article, Why Women Still Can’t Have It All, jump-started the conversation. Other moms, bloggers and commentators have been adding
Photo by bsabarnowl via Flickr Have you seen the video of middle school kids tormenting their 60-some-year-old bus monitor? The story of Karen, the bus monitor, and her 10-minute verbal assault has gone viral. Scores of sympathetic people have raised over $140,000 to send Karen
You know about our camping trip. But did you know that it all started with the Titanic? My 6-year-old son is a Titanic fanatic. He first got interested in the Titanic about a year ago, after we picked up a book about the famous wreck
We are back! Back from Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Back from Mammoth Cave National Park. Back from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. And back from a week-long, camping road trip that included one flat tire, a kind Kentucky state trooper, a cantankerous old lady,
Photo by espensorvik via Flickr Here it is! The Best of the Blogs for the week of June 4-8, 2012: Why Society is Failing Young Boys. Boys/young men aren’t doing so well in society. Girls are graduating college are far greater rates than boys are,
It’s the first day of summer vacation here. Boy #1-3, plus a friend, are currently picking stones for a local farmer. (Don’t know what I mean by “picking stones?” Check out this 2009 blog post.) Boy #4 is a busy as busy can be. So
Maybe I’m just hyper-sensitive to language. Or maybe I just strongly believe that little boys should have the freedom to be little boys, without hearing verbal messages that imply they’re somehow not manly enough. Last night, I attended my 6-yr-old son’s first baseball game of
Actor Jason Alexander, formerly of Seinfeld, took some heat in 2012 when he called the sport of cricket “a bit gay.” Hi comments ignited a controversy on Twitter, with some of his followers saying that they found his humor offensive. Alexander didn’t get it. At
I was attempting to hurry my 6-yr-old through his bedtime routine when he started scrawling something on the steamy bathroom mirror. “Stop th–,” I said, my voice trailing off as I suddenly realized what he might be writing. His finger continued through the condensation, then
Poet Guante, with a powerful piece that touches on the hidden (and hurtful) messages in the phrase, “man up.”
Normally, Fridays are Best of the Blogs day around here. But today, please allow me a moment to interrupt our regularly scheduled programming… Today is June 1, which means that the Blogathon — the 31-day blogging challenging I undertook during the month of May —
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