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Comment on Full term breastfeeding bingo by Ravi

Ravi — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:57:14 +0000

I can’t bieelve that so many people have lost the use of their necks and can’t just look away.

Comment on Twelfth Carnival of Feminist Parenting by Laura Weldon

Laura Weldon — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:41:24 +0000

I’m looking forward to moseying through all these links. Thanks for including my post on Radical Homemaking.

Comment on Ninth Carnival of Feminist Parenting by Why I don’t believe that sleep training is incompatible with children’s rights « Parenting Myths, Parenting Facts

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:42:02 +0000

[...] A few months ago, one of the featured posts was an anti-sleep training polemic. Just Let Her Cry started out with a fictional first-person tale of an ill and depressed woman shut in her room by her husband every evening when it suited him regardless of whether she was hungry, in pain, or just not tired. The author then drew her analogy between this and controlled crying or other forms of cry-it-out (CIO) sleep training, which she referred to as ‘neglect with a different name’. She claimed, inaccurately but ominously, that scientists everywhere knew the short and long-term consequences of CIO to be ‘vast’, and was scathing in her condemnation of parents who’ve tried sleep training: ‘They aren’t setting out to harm a child, but that doesn’t change the fact that they are. Argue with me all you want. Say “I let my baby cry it out, and he/she is fine”. I don’t believe you. I believe you broke your child like an animal. I believe they gave up. They didn’t magically learn to “self-soothe”, they just figured out that you suck at being a parent at night time.’ This wasn’t a discussion of feminist parenting; this was a no-holds-barred shot in the Mommy Wars. [...]

Comment on Carnival of Feminist Parenting by Why I don’t believe that sleep training is incompatible with children’s rights « Parenting Myths, Parenting Facts

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:41:59 +0000

[...] for Women’s Lib regularly host a Carnival of Feminist Parenting. Every month (recently reduced to every two months) they post links to a selection of posts about [...]

Comment on Pregnancy and smoking – do we have the right to choose for other women? by how can i get pregnant

how can i get pregnant — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:08:00 +0000

how will i get pregnant…

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Comment on Sixth Carnival of Feminist Parenting by children

children — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:43:51 +0000

family…

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Comment on Pregnancy and smoking – do we have the right to choose for other women? by Not every one is perfect like you

Not every one is perfect like you — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:01:06 +0000

Nobody is perfect….NOT even the “best mom ever” and you have no idea about what women go through that lead them to smoke even when pregnant. Unless you have walked a mile in someone else’s shoes then you have no right to judge their lifestyle. And no matter what the people say, ultimately it is up to that one person to make their own decisions and not give a damn what others think!

Comment on Pregnancy and smoking – do we have the right to choose for other women? by Best mom ever

Best mom ever — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:13:49 +0000

Did you throw your disgusting cigarette on the ground (or ‘floor’ as you call it) – what dog does is none of your business anymore than the smoking issue. Smoking kills a lot more people than dogs! You are a disgusting hypocrite.

Comment on Pregnancy and smoking – do we have the right to choose for other women? by Femomist

Femomist — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:49:21 +0000

I smoked while I was pregnant and for the first year of my daughter’s life. There was nothing wrong with my health or her’s, but I lost a midwife over it and it ultimately cost me the home birth I was planning. Not because there was anything wrong, mind you, just because. Liabilities and licenses were at stake and I took the fall. I was judged not only by this midwife but the coven of midwives that covered my city. There was a spill-over from this in the hospital as well, where they require you take a drug test if you are a smoking pregnant woman. Only in America would anyone be so myopic about smoking AND birth.

Comment on Department of FAIL by Lara

Lara — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:09:57 +0000

Catalog of children’s toys called “HearthSong.” There were some cool things till I got to “Join the Club House” for boys. The copy starts, “No girls allowed!” and the “clubhouse” has “Girls Beware!” printed on it. (Or what?)

Then you come to the one for girls. It is not a clubhouse, it’s “Let’s Play House” and has “No Boys Allowed” printed on it.

Clubhouse for boys with a warning printed on it, vs. a house for girls disallowing boys. Different sections in the catalog for boys’ and girls’ toys.