Does she look like she's a chain smoker or what?
Elisabeth Badinter’s new book, Le Conflit, La Femme et La Mère (The Conflict, The Woman and The Mother), is an argument against the resurgence of earth mother domesticity including cloth diapers, homemade baby purees and breastfeeding. Check out this article about her in UK Times. Instead, she advocates smoking and drinking, formula and boarding schools. What makes me angry about her is that she has three children who she raised in the 60′s and 70′s, before we knew smoking was bad or knew about global warming or environmental toxins. It was a different world. Also, if having children is such a burden, why have one? And once you have one and realize the extent of the burden, why have two more? Read more »
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Sorry George
While I love books, I don’t love all books. In general, I do not like books that have any form of branding involved, like books with characters from T.V. shows or popular movies. Curious George was a key part of children’s literature before it was ever a popular movie, so I can forgive the trendy commercialization of the curious little monkey, but I still do not understand how this book has become so popular. My husband hates when I say this, but, “I don’t get it.” Read more »
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We get so many books as gifts. Personally, I think they are the best gifts. You can never have too many. And until my daughter is old enough to know better, board books are the absolute best. I can’t tell you how much tape I spent taping pages back into books that my daughter thought quite amusing to tear. As adults, we no longer tear pages, but I suggest, once in a blue moon, when the mood has got you, to tear pages. Wow, it feels good. Just another joy I learned from my child. Anyway, books are great.
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The list of 25 things has become quite a fad since it’s introduction on Facebook. I leapt on the chance to write a list about myself as it fanned by narcissism, but I soon realized there is another list, perhaps more therapeutic than narcissistic, that I would like to write. I decided there is no better forum than right here at AlsoKnownAsMom.com.
25 Ways My Life has Changed Since Having a Child
1. I no longer drink, smoke or do drugs.
2. If my husband and I want to go out together alone, we must schedule it with a third-party, AKA a babysitter.
3. Otherwise, we are all home by 8 p.m.
4. I would rather be home by 5 p.m. to make dinner and give my daughter a bath before bed.
5. Actually, I’d rather just stay home instead. Read more »
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How many times can you read The Jolly Barnyard before a tick develops that causes you to cluck intermittently while conversing? How many times can you read These Are My Hands before you begin announcing your body parts to grocery clerks? How many times can you read Red Fish Blue Fish before you begin speaking in rhyme at the post office? I have tested these theories and have found that, although mommies may feel like we are incurring these oddities, no one else seems to notice. Read more »
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