5 Myths About Gender Neutral Parenting
This article was originally posted on Everyday Feminism. This Thursday 4/4 I’ll be on EF Talk Radio taking questions about Gender Neutral Parenting! Tune in and learn more. Practicing Gender Neutral Parenting - Thur, 4/4, 8 pm EST/5 pm PST Credit: NAYEC The day I found out the baby I was carrying was a girl, I bought a frilly, pink dress. It had taken me a long time to get pregnant and I wanted a girl. Yes, I wanted a “healthy baby” but I was honest enough with myself to say I preferred a girl. In retrospect, it seems incongruent with my feminist views that I did...
Read MoreGood Food v. Bad Food
Recently, my post 15 Tips for Raising Kids With a Positive Body Image, has received a lot of comments. I’m so glad people are finding the post and discussing this important topic! I have two follow-up posts: Big Fat Myths About Fat and this one. Many commenters had problems with #6 and #13 in my list; Do not label foods as “good” and “bad” Avoid talking about a nutrionalist approach to food – disassembling “food” into fat, carbs, calories, and other things that need to be obsessed about and counted (difficult since it is explicitly taught in many schools). For...
Read MoreRaising a Family on Food Stamps (SNAP)
The most surreal thing happened to me last week. I was asked to participate in a live, online discussion on HuffPostLIVE called Faces of Food Stamps. You can view the 1/2 hour program here. It is so awesome that my post I’m a Welfare Mom has generated so much discussion here and on Everyday Feminism. The HuffPostLIVE segment was prompted by a woman in Georgia who was harassed at a grocery store for being on Food Stamps (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program or SNAP). The guests were myself, Sandi Bachom, who is living on Food Stamps in NYC, Jojo Rhines, who is living...
Read MoreBig Fat Myths About Fat Part I
Recently, my post 15 Tips for Raising Kids With a Positive Body Image, has received a lot of comments. I’m so glad people are finding the post and discussing this important topic! I’ve been reluctant to talk about some of the naysayers because I’m not primarily a size-acceptance blogger and there are so many great bloggers out there already doing the work. However, I haven’t been able to reply to every comment so I figured it was time for a clarifying post. First, the post in question was a revisit of a previous post “I Don’t Think of You As Fat!” Raising...
Read MoreWelfare and Infertility
I’m so excited that Everyday Feminism is cross posting my article on being a Welfare Mom. This new feminism site is great because it focuses on practical issues in feminism and personal stories of living as a feminist. Like them on Facebook too! Here’s the thing. Of course I immediately got a comment on my blog post from last week about Extra Embryo Options that said: “How can you spend thousands of dollars on IVF when you\’re on welfare? Shame on you.” /facepalm Way to completely miss the point of the article (both of them)! I use my personal life...
Read MoreAre Women Really Divided Into SAHM and WOHM?
So, in case you live under a rock (or don’t live in the US) feminist Hilary Rosen recently started a firestorm by saying of Mitt Romney (presidential candidate)’s wife that “she never worked a day in her life.” I understand what Rosen was trying to say while I disagreed with her wording (and her wording on her follow up post where she calls staying home a “luxury”). Regardless, everyone is in an uproar about which job is harder, which job is more worthy, and which job is the most maligned by society. Sigh. Women against women really makes me sad. Having...
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