This Saturday from 10 – 3 is the Parent-Daughter Fair, sponsored by Planned Parenthood and a host of others. These parent-daughter fairs are so much fun, empowering for kids, and helpful for grown-ups too. What’s a parent-daughter fair anyway? In our area parent-daughter fairs used to be called mother-daughter fairs but then organizers realized that many children don’t have moms…
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A New Way to Sell Books … in a Vending Machine
My writer friend and colleague Theo Nestor took this photograph of a vending machine book for sale in Seattle, Washington. She was so excited when she saw that another friend of ours had a book you could purchase in a vending machine. Kate Hanley’s The Anywhere Anytime Chill Guide is a vending machine book that you buy with your Cheez-Its. How awesome…
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Mothering Magazine Becomes Web-Only
Mothering magazine Editor-in-Chief, Peggy O’Mara, announced in an on-line editorial that the Mothering magazine will cease its print edition in order to concentrate efforts on its on-line community. Mothering’s website and community forums get upwards of 500,000 visitors a month and @MotheringMag has over 75,000 followers on Twitter. The print magazine was down to a circulation of only 100,000, and…
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When You Use Science and Best Evidence to Buttress an Argument, Don’t be Surprised to be Called a Conspiracy Theorist
In an op-ed in the New York Time’s Room for Debate, I argue that moms and dads should be allowed to photograph, video, and record the birth of their baby. The op-ed is generating interesting comments. Parents want to photograph birth because birth is an amazing, beautiful event that profoundly changes your life. Of course parents want to capture these special…
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Circumcision Debate
A doctor I interviewed last week said he thinks we live in Galilean times. If you remember back to your history classes, Galileo was the Italian physicist and astronomer who championed the idea that the Earth was not the center of the universe. This idea was so heretical to the powers that be that Galileo recanted. Despite his public renunciation…
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Our Baby Bonding Book for Dads Featured in Today’s Toronto Star
Ann Douglas, Canada’s best known parenting writer, author of many excellent books, and a mother of four, recommended The Baby Bonding Book for Dads in an article in the Toronto Star, “A guide to books about babies and pregnancy.” Our baby bonding book for dads is in good company. Ann Douglas also recommends: The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding (one of the most helpful…
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