Four-year-olds don’t mess around – when they have questions, they want answers. During the last Presidential election, my son was a baby. This time around, he’s four and giving me the third degree about the election: What is an election? How do you vote? Where do the ballots go? Why do people want to be elected? His [...]
No one is more interested in breast cancer than I. My mother was first diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 10 years old and died of a recurrence seven years later. Now, more than twenty years after my mother’s death, my sister and I are both nearing the age of my mother’s first diagnosis [...]
Everyone wants their hard work and effort to be recognized and valued. When you earn a paycheck for your work, there’s some built-in validation of the “worth” of your effort. But the external recognition of stay-at-home parenting is often more complicated. Sure, the contributions of stay-at-home parents are validated rhetorically but things seem to usually [...]
Great news! Remember the credit card fiasco which unintentionally prevented stay-at-home parents from getting credit cards? (I wish I didn’t!) Last week in his testimony before Congress, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Richard Cordray indicated that the CFPB would soon issue rules to restore stay-at-home parents’ fair access to credit. Specifically, he said: “We [...]
Here’s a story that gets us in the heart: When MomsRising member Cristi of Bothell, Washington gave birth to her first child, she planned to breastfeed. But when her son’s blood sugar level dipped shortly after birth, the hospital directed her to feed him formula. Unfortunately, the hospital’s nurses and doctors didn’t give Cristi any [...]
Last week, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced that a woman, Candy Crowley of CNN, would moderate one of the three nationally televised Presidential debates. This makes Crowley the first woman in 20 years (!) to moderate a Presidential debate. Although women have done a great job moderating recent Vice Presidential debates, including PBS’ Gwen Ifill [...]
Let’s just say, I’m very glad that Congressman Todd Akin is not MY doctor – or any woman’s doctor. This weekend, Congressman Akin from Missouri explained his understanding of the chance of pregnancy as a result of a rape the following way: “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to [...]
I’ve been reading a lot of parenting books on discipline lately. (Don’t ask!) Across all of the methods, one piece of advice is the same – praise your child when they do the right thing. This rule doesn’t apply just to four-year-olds – we all like to get noticed and praised when we do the [...]
Earlier today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 244-185 to repeal the Affordable Care Act. If this feels like deja vu, it’s because it is. By the its own count, the GOP majority has voted to repeal or defund the Affordable Care 33 times — yes, 33 times! — since it claimed the majority in [...]
Ah, the call of the ice cream truck. The minute he hears the music from a distance, my four year-old begins begging, “Can I have an ice cream?!” He tries every possible approach – when I say no, he corners his father, and has even resorted to asking a neighbor to buy one for him. These [...]
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