First Name Basis
While I was making dinner on Saturday evening, my husband decided to casually tell me that he had lost four year old Benny Boy at the hardware store that afternoon. Knowing that I have drilled into my...
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Ding Dong the Witch is Dead
Hey Mattel, I am giddy. For three years I have been explaining to my little girl why your product lines Barbie and Monster High are not welcome in our house. I have dissected time and again the...
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This Research Needs More Research
I have some issues with the new study out of Knox College that reported overwhelming numbers of very young girls choosing self-sexualization over a more appropriate choice. I was holding back sharing...
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La De Da: More Fashion Dolls
La De Da dolls main character. While watching tv together this morning….. “Mom, are La De Da dolls appropriate? I don’t think they have too much makeup on.” -6yo Original Pigtail Pal “Well, some of...
View ArticleI am on Team Bullied
I had injured my knee when I was in basketball in seventh grade, and was on crutches with a hip-to-ankle leg brace the day I got on a bus and rode ninety minutes from home with other students from my...
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Book Review: “Bullied: What Every Parent, Teacher, and Kid Needs To Know...
In 2010 I reached out to a mom whom I had never met, but I knew her story through the blogosphere. Her young daughter Katie was being bullied in her first grade class for liking Star Wars. Like...
View ArticleUno Dos Tres
I’m at the library working on my book, and a fast movement in my left periphery vision got my attention. I turned my head to see a really cute kid, maybe five years old or so, sneaking around the adult...
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The Tooth Fairy is Friends with Mermaid Barbies
We’ve had a go of it at our house lately. Taking our stalker to court after a year of being scared and harassed, wasp stings, and this week: Oral Surgery. It was a rotten way to spend a week in the...
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Another Sunny Tuesday
It is so hard, on days like today, to explain the world to your children. Eleven years ago today was also a Tuesday morning, the sky was sunny and the autumn air was warm and crisp. And then all of a...
View ArticleOn Being Six In A Sea of Sexy Dolls
Many times when I’m sharing discussions I have with 6yo Amelia as she and I work through our hyper-sexual culture, I tend to get a comment or two about she or I being judgmental towards other females....
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Are You Sure You Want To Be President?
When a little boy says he wants to be president, do you ever hear anyone try to talk him out of it? Or tell him he should focus on being handsome or being a daddy instead? So when that happens to our...
View ArticleSpeak All the Louder
Yesterday we all listened to and loved Emma Watson’s UN speech on feminism and gender stereotypes. As quickly as the fanfare arrived, so did the online rape threats, death threats, and website counting...
View ArticleQuestion From the Trenches: My spouse is addicted to screens
Question: What do you do when your spouse has a technology addiction and won’t agree to or participate in these “screen free” periods? My kids are only 3 and 6 months, but I already have a hard time...
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