The most recent cover of the US version of TIME magazine had a picture of a woman breastfeeding. This is controversial enough in the US, but additionally, the breastfeeding child was 3 years old, male, and standing on a chair so he could reach her breast as she stood. The accompanying headline: 'Are you MOM ENOUGH? Why attachment parenting drives ( Read more... )

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Email from GetUp ( Read more... )

The other day I was in a shopping centre and this guy just whipped out a burger and started eating, right in front of me, without even asking if I minded. So rude! I could see his jaw muscles moving and everything. I can't understand these self-righteous, attention-seeking bogans who think they can just chew away in public without considering ( Read more... )

Mostly for my own reference but many of you might find these online recordings of public lectures interesting ( Read more... )

Chatting to a friend who is currently underemployed the other week, she said that she couldn't do what I did in being at home all day - she needs to work to keep herself sane ( Read more... )

I want to write a long reflective post about how I feel on returning to work and leaving my child in someone else's care, but bedtime is in 20 minutes, so. Short version: conflicted, getting used to it ( Read more... )

...and I'm not bored yet! I'm actually kinda wishing I'd taken the full year off work so that I could do the transition to solids entirely myself, rather than daycare 2 days a week where they haven't heard of baby led solids (and probably don't really have the staff in the baby room to watch her while she eats something non-mashed ( Read more... )

From why_am_i. I'm surprised that actrealdon isn't all over this already - are they making you do some work, or something? :)

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Inspired by tikiwanderer's latest post about babies and sleep, I bring you a long post about what all newish parents want for Christmas: ( sleeeeeep.... )