From the monthly archives:

March 2010

A Blog of One’s Own

March 16, 2010

My corner of the blogosphere has been in an uproar over the New York Times article scathingly titled, “Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy. I’m Too Busy Building My Brand.” I snapped off a retort on Strollerderby yesterday, but now that I’ve had a chance to think (and read) more about it, I have something more personal [...]

Tagged as: bake sale, blog, blogs, feminism, internet, new york times article, parenting, power woman, rants, technology, tupperware parties, women, women writing, writing

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The Weekly Links

March 13, 2010

Here is my apparently almost actually weekly round-up of my writing Elsewhere on the Internets.This week, even though I remain as an exhausted working parent, I managed to knock out articles on topics ranging from sleep deprivation to mean girls. Like this: The High Cost of Clutter – Get Rich Slowly – Do you have [...]

Tagged as: behavior, clutter, cool girl, ethics, mean girl, sleep, sleep deprivation, sleeping, weekly link round-up

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The Rosa Parks Story, as told by my kid

March 11, 2010

Martin and I went to see Amy Goodman and her brother David speak at Tufts a few days ago. During her talk, Amy brought up the Rosa Parks story. Like I did in my essay on the power of small change a few weeks ago, Amy talked about the contrast between the popular imagination of [...]

Tagged as: activism, amy goodman, civil rights, community organizing, rio, rosa parks, rosa parks story, united states

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The $1 Family Meal

March 10, 2010

My husband is a great cook, and prepares most of our family meals. He’s not one of these food show followers who makes a different gourmet recipe every night of the week with the rare vegetables he picked up at the farmer’s market on his way home. He’s more of an intuitive cook. A guy [...]

Tagged as: barbie dolls, cheap, cheap cooking, chickpea, cooking, family, family meal, food, food and drink, frugal, gourmet recipes, healthy food, kitchen, martin, meals, recipe, vegetarian

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“Unautomate Your Finances”

March 9, 2010

Adam Baker, one of my fellow writers at Get Rich Slowly has a new personal finance guide out as of today, for sale on his website, Man Vs. Debt. With a title like “Unautomate Your Finances,” Adam’s approach would seem to be the opposite of my new banking scheme, where I used my automated banking [...]

Tagged as: adam, finance guides, financing, money, personal assistant, personal finances, quick look, reviews, simplicity

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Better late than never, here are last week’s Links

March 8, 2010

I had a sudden attack of Playing Outside and Taking Long Naps over the weekend, so no posts. Here’s what I was up to last week: Working Parents Are Exhausted – Strollerderby – Almost 60 percent of middle-class households have both parents working outside the home. And we’re exhausted by it. Protecting Baby’s Hearing – [...]

Tagged as: abortion, abortion politics, abortions, baby, child rearing, childhood, education, family, ferber method, human development, middle class, parenting, sex ed, sleep, sleep train, sleeping, social issues, weekly link round-up

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Can’t Sleep Without A Princess

March 5, 2010

Serena’s been a bit of a bedtime rebel lately. She’s mostly sleeping through the night, waking up only briefly to pee and get a glass of water around 2 a.m. But she just not falling asleep at bedtime. She goes through the whole bath-book-bed routine with her dad and sister. Rio drops off to sleep [...]

Tagged as: ariel, barbie, bedtime, belle, childhood, disney princess, distracted, dolls, fall asleep, princess belle, princesses, serena, sleep, sleeping, sweet girls

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Endless Snacks

March 4, 2010

Ever since I wrote that article for Strollerderby about how it’s Snack Time All The Time for America’s kids, I’ve been seeing snacks everywhere. I thought, before that, that my own kids were not big snackers. We have two set “snacktimes” a day, at mid-morning and mid-afternoon. The kids usually get slices of fruit and [...]

Tagged as: birthday party, eat, eating, food and drink, health, healthy diet, healthy eating habits, kids, kids eating, nutrition, snack food, snack foods, snacks, vegetarianism

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Sleep Training: Cruel or Kind?

March 3, 2010

Sleep has been the albatross around the neck of my parenting life for the past six years. I have a piece up at Strollerderby this week about sleep training. Seems that parents who feel OK about letting their babies cry it out are more successful at getting their little ones to sleep. I am not [...]

Tagged as: baby crying, beds, child abuse, child rearing, childhood, co sleeping, cry, family, ferber method, human development, human interest, infancy, infant bed, infant crying, night nurses, parenting, sleep, sleep train, sleeping

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Why I Quit Everything

March 2, 2010

Last September, when my five-year-old started kindergarten, she also went to swimming lessons twice a week, gymnastics class once a week, music class on Saturday mornings, and a weekly play group at the community growing center. My toddler had a lighter schedule, comprised of only swim lessons and a weekly playdate at the library. I [...]