I totally agree feminist mum- we need to embrace partriarchy in order to overcome it, not sit around weighting for perepetia. However, what if the son isn’t yours but you have to live with it? I’m currently in quite a serious relationship with a man and his son is already starting to gender…

Abby and I have developed this highly elaborate game, which combines the childhood games of Hide & Seek and Tag, with a vicious attack scene reminiscent of Alien. It goes something like this: Abby runs up to me with that crazy, “I’m frisky! Look at my dilated pupils and bushy tail” look in her…

You have never seen The Color Purple? :shock: Beloved I can understand because it was brutal. Seriously. So NOT a date movie. With my mother’s permission I read The Color Purple when I was 14. I will never forget the first page. Ms. Walker let you know from the beginning what you were in for and…

Books help to normalize what some would sensationalize. It helps to take the taboo away from what the mainstream calls different and makes children in less conventional families feel validated, which is so important. Children thrive the best when they feel validation. Also, I get very uncomfortable…

I had both prenatal and post-natal depression. I actually did have a home-birth and my midwife’s behavoir during the birth was what started a really terrible bout of ppd (I blogged some about that in this post – http://musings-musings-musings.blogspot.com/2008/06/ah-happiness-myth.html). And I so…