I'd forgotten that this also was in my open Firefox tabs, waiting for further attention! Similar topic, but as I took off to do some grocery shopping shortly after posting the Business Week op-ed and now have to work on supper, still no further along than I was before :} (at least where this is concerned)...

( Should Kids Be Able to Graduate After 10th Grade? )

From blogger Leah McElrath, a companion to yesterday's post...

By bringing that reality to a national political stage, Biden demonstrated that -- for all of us, not just feminists -- the personal is political, that women alone do not have the sole responsibility for caring about the future of our children and that the concern of fathers is a ( Read more... )

Link to full article. It's no coincidence that the article (see excerpt below) was written by Lisa Belkin, author of Life's Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom and NYT columnist who's credited with starting the debate about moms "opting out" (choosing not to continue paid work, but with a decidedly upper-middle class economic spin). Belkin's ( Read more... )

Congress resumes its current session this coming Monday, 4/14, and one of the bills stalled in the House Subcomittee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions is H.R. 2236, aka the Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2007 that was introduced by Rep. Carolyn Mulroney, D-NY, in May of 2007. Continue reading for info and who to contact to voice your views on ( Read more... )

It's been a long while since I've remembered to turn NPR's Talk of the Nation on if I'm at home during the afternoon -- thank goodness I did today!

Neal Conan's last segment involved a call-in conversation with E.J. Graff, whose Op-Ed entitled The Mommy Wars Machine appeared in yesterday's Washington Post. She very clearly calls the media and ( Read more... )

This article from the 12/24/06 NYT Magazine so captures my train of thought about myself, about my own experiences, and about raising a daughter -- not to mention parallel thoughts of how we raise boys.

I'm already smirking in anticipation of when chernabog and polomarco reach the part about Disney's "Dark Tink" consumer marketing strategy.

ETA: I'm editorializing ( Read more... )

Preparing Christmas supper turned out to be what most reminded me of Mom this year. I didn't pull out the fancy dishes (WO's still a bit young), but we did use the fancy stemware for the first time since Mom gave it to us at our wedding. Mom always laid a beautiful Christmas table. Dad always remembered to provide a centerpiece. It's the little ( Read more... )

I went to bed last night and woke up this morning thinking about a particular comment thread that follows a_t_rain's recent excellent contribution to hp_essays, a meta discussion of feminism and romance in the Harry Potter books.

If you review the comment thread I linked above, read kindkit's OP, as well as the full sub-thread started by thistleroseWhat struck me is that these ( Read more... )