Parenting Tips Today

The recent Supreme Court decision in favor of white New Haven fire fighters continues to percolate in the blogosphere: A. Serwer (subbing for Ta-Nehisi Coates) at The Atlantic has a thorough analysis of color-blindness, racism and disparate impact . Larry Roberts at Scoop4 takes on the charge of ‘reverse racism’ and points out that this rhetoric is deployed by those who misunderstand the nation’s history . As does the Senate’s apology for slavery: Senator Brownback got c

We went blueberry picking today. It’s one of our summer traditions. Last year, I kept my one year old in a baby bjorn while I tried to pick around her, and she ate pretty much a pound of blueberries; green, pink, and blue alike. This year, my daughter picked up the bucket that was larger than she was, and dutifully walked behind me as I dropped blueberries into her enormous bucket. She stooped to sample only a few times, but was never, ever, more than arm’s reach from her mother. She wait

Alec Baldwin (with Marci Klein) at the UJA-Federation of New York’s Leadership awards dinner at Pier Sixty in New York City on June 6th. Images thanks to WENN.com . Depending on how you look at it, Alec Baldwin is either really gutsy, totally insane, or able to learn from his mistakes. Or perhaps a combination of the three. After the controversy of the infamous “rude, thoughtless little pig” voicemail message he left for his then 11-year-old daughter Ireland, you’d think Alec would h

The Pregnancy Book: Martha Sears, William, Linda Hughey Holt Little, Brown and Company | ISBN: 0316779148 | 1997-06-01 | PDF (OCR) | 448 pages | 2.51 Mb The Pregnancy Book is an excellent all-in-one guide to pregnancy from William and Martha Sears, creators of the concept of “attachment parenting.” Each of the book’s chapters represents a month, and deals with physical and emotional changes, describes the growth of the fetus, and discusses common concerns. The authors also focus on nutr

I just finished watching MTV’s 16 and Pregnant , and it got me to thinking about my own experience with being pregnant at a young age. I wasn’t sixteen when I got pregnant with Alyssa, but if you can do basic math, then you’ll know that I was 20 when I had her. In fact, I was five months shy of my twentieth birthday when I conceived her, so I was technically a teen mom for a little while there. Alyssa was definitely unexpected. Though perhaps that isn’t quite the word to use, because I will a