Tweet(s) of the Day: Inviting You To Giggle on a Thursday #WeAllNeedFreedom

These children are so creative. That’s a future revolutionary right there. #WeAllNeedFreedom is my new favorite thing.  Grounded my 7yo for the day for pouring lotion all over the floor and the wall. She is apparently unhappy about this. pic.twitter.com/ufR3kh7dTG — Erika Nicole Kendall (@bgg2wl) August 7, 2014 The aforementioned wanted poster: pic.twitter.com/3MZGXMIitG — Erika […]

Refusing to Blink

If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times. “Enjoy every minute.” “They’ll be grown before you know it.” “It goes by so fast.” In my pre-motherhood days, I thought these were just the sentimental musings of people who were either being dramatic or who couldn’t think of anything else to say and…

Neil deGrasse Tyson Has Some Advice for Parents

Originally posted on The Feminine Miss Geek:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIEJjpVlZu0 How to raise a scientist.

The “Talk” and Forgetting About Pleasure – Teach Your Children Well

What happens when you are a sex-positive feminist who believes in honest dialogue with your kids, and your six, seven and ten year-old kids ask you what sex is? You may (if you’d had a healthy glass of wine) just be direct and matter-of-fact…and tell them. My kids have known the proper names for genitals […]

You Can’t Always Raise Them Right… Or Left

Originally posted on The Dish:
Looking at how parents attempt to inculcate their kids with their political beliefs, Te-Erika Patterson notes that those attempts often backfire: It’s understandable that parents with strong beliefs would feel it is their duty to see their children adopt those beliefs. But, however well-meaning these efforts are, they may be in vain. A study recently published in…

How tough is motherhood?

Originally posted on Mummy Says…:
I’m forced awake before 6am everyday for another round of this thing that is life. I’m always woken by screams after a night of perhaps five broken hours of sleep. I tend to the basic necessities of two small human beings – I feed, wash and clothe them. I express…

How Big Business Targets Children

Originally posted on Plato on-line:
Cover via Amazon “Corporate behavior is very similar to that of a psychopath.” The diagnostic criteria for psychopathy is: 1. Unable to be concerned for others 2. Only advances their own self interest 3. Has trouble obeying the law and social conventions Bakan wrote the book “The Corporation: The Pathological…

UPDATE: THERE REALLY IS “SHUT THE HELL UP GUM”

The other day I overheard my daughter say something HILARIOUS to her brothers. See it here. And because my Twitter followers are EPIC, I got this reply today. I think we shall be purchasing gum soon. Oh, @KCGibbons, your kid might like to know that this really *does* exist and is available in stores. http://t.co/NOG2ixvBEa […]

Tweet of the Day: My Kids Really Are Funny.

My husband is from Dublin, Ireland and I am a rebellious Preacher’s kid. That means we cuss a lot. We also don’t punish our kids for saying “bad words,” only for using them in a hateful or inappropriate way. Which is why when this happened last night, I almost peed myself laughing. If you know […]

A Yell-y Mommy’s Lament; the I’m a Horrible Mother Edition

CTFD. Calm the Fuck Down.  It is a mantra I could’ve used the last two weeks. My husband’s mother passed away in Ireland at 96 – peacefully. He flew home and was gone for 12 days. He made a trip home last December for 10 days, so I assumed my experience would be similar. It […]