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Below is a list of favorite places on the internet, random links, stuff I like, and more. It's constantly evolving and completely subjective and in no discernable order. Click away, if you're so inclined.

A cool video in Japanese on how to fold a shirt.

The best way to tie your shoes.

There's nothing healthy about this recipe (so ignore the intro) but these strawberry mice are a lot of fun to make with your kids.

This is a cool video about the Jewish High Holidays, which includes Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur recipes.

Buy a kid's unicycle.

A delicious whole wheat agave-sweetened lemon cake.

There's nothing healthy about these strawberry mice (so ignore the intro) but these strawberry mice are a lot of fun to make with your kids.

This is a cool video about the Jewish High Holidays, which includes Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur recipes.

The best agave-sweetened carrot cake.

New! Quoted in an article by Jeremy Greenberg, "Mommy, What are my 'Lady Lumps'?" on MSNBC.com. Read the full article if you dare (it's very funny), which is about whether it's okay to have slacker and grunge music in a house with small children. Here's one (of several) quotes:

When a child asks a direct question, always provide a direct answer. Dr. Margulis adds that a good parent should even take it a step further. Most parents would rather change the subject than explain to their daughters that "lady lumps" is perhaps the dumbest slang for boobs since frat boys started calling them "fun bags." But Dr. Margulis advises us that rather than turn away, this is "an opportunity for an amazing conversation."

Quoted in an article in the Medford Mail Tribune about the upcoming media training workshop:

August 20, 2009
A Medford workshop next week aims to help community groups understand how to work with the media to get coverage of events and activities.

The workshop organized by the Klamath Bird Observatory is set from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Jefferson Nature Center at Medford's new sports park off Highway 99 south of town. The cost is $50.

"So much time, money and energy is wasted because businesses don't have basic training," said Jennifer Margulis, a freelance writer and one of the presenters. The other is Mike Green, former Web editor for the Daily Tidings in Ashland.

The pair will give their thoughts on what information press releases should contain, how to get submissions published, how to handle reporters and how to promote activities.

Details: 201-0866 or www.klamathbird.org.

— Staff reports

Quoted in an AP article by Jeff Bernard about the CDC coming to Ashland to find out why parents in this community are choosing to research the safety and efficacy of vaccines:

Jennifer Margulis moved here with her husband and three kids from Massachusetts, where her mother is a cellular biologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. Though she chuckles at some of Ashland's personality quirks, she embraces the city's strong sense of community and many people's distrust of mainstream medicine.

"I never questioned the efficacy or intelligence of doing vaccines until I was in the hospital with my newborn daughter and a doctor tried to get me to give her hepatitis B vaccine," she said. "Hepatitis B is a sexually transmitted disease. I knew I didn't have hepatitis B. I knew my husband didn't have it. I knew there was no way she would come in contact with anyone with hepatitis B.

"You have this tiny, frog-like baby and they want to shoot her up with things."

Afterward, Margulis' pediatrician supported her choice. "I decided it was my responsibility as a parent to research each and every vaccine to make an informed, intelligent decision, not to just follow what doctors told me," she said

Quoted in an article in Pregnancy Magazine, "What's the Fuss?" by Dawn Papandrea.

"Crying, even a lot of crying, really is normal and is not an indication that you're a bad parent or have a bad baby."

Read the article for some good ideas about why your baby's crying, and what to do about it.

Profiled by Smithsonian's editor in chief Carey Winfrey in his editor's note in the November issue of the magazine.

Quoted in a very biased article on kids and vaccines on MSNBC, which includes an audio slide show interview of Jennifer Margulis, whose view that parents have the right to educate themselves led to bloggers around the U.S. to call her a moron and a buffoon. Click on the "play" button to hear the audio file.

Quoted in a Parenting Magazine article about why you should let your 1-year-old baby smush her birthday cake all over the place.

Quoted in an article about Readying your child for a new baby.

Quoted in an article about Prenatal bonding.

Interviewed by Andrea Buchanan at Literary Mama about Toddler.

Interviewed by Mama Zine about why Toddler was banned.

 

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