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“A mother shouldn’t leave her child until about the age of three”, declares a father. Oh, I do not think so. What infants and toddlers and preschoolers need is attachment — loving, responsive care from people they know and trust, preferably have known for most or all of their lives but at least with whom they have [...] 18 July 2010 at 2:31 am | Category: Attachment Parenting, Fathering, Gender, Kyriarchy | Tags: alloparents, attachment theory, breastfeeding, misogyny | 59 comments
Like this? Share it: Welcome to the February Carnival of Natural Parenting: Love and partners! This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month we’re writing about how a co-parent has or has not supported us in our dedication to natural parenting. Please read to the [...] 9 February 2010 at 1:03 am | Category: Attachment Parenting, Fathering | Tags: babywearing, birth, breastfeeding, Carnival of Natural Parenting, homebirth, pictures, sleep | 15 comments
Like this? Share it: Welcome to the Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer, PhD in Parenting-style. Annie brings to the WFPP her usual informative flair on the subject of leaving her children in the care of her partner while she leaves the house to work. Annie wishes to include this disclaimer: This post gives the perspective of a male-partnered cis woman who carried [...] 13 January 2010 at 6:00 am | Category: Attachment Parenting, Fathering, Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer | Tags: birth, breastfeeding, sharing parenting, work | 20 comments
Like this? Share it: After several months of completely ignoring its existence, I’m trying to clean up my Google Reader: trim it down, shift it over, and make it reflect the blogs that I actually want to read, but don’t catch in my Twitter stream due to missed timing (or the author — gasp! — not tweeting). I am [...] 3 January 2010 at 2:16 am | Category: Fathering, Links, Parenting | Tags: ableism, blogging, breastfeeding, Carnival of Natural Parenting | 1 comment
Like this? Share it: Tomorrow — finally, 3.5 months after being laid off, 1.5 months after getting offered this new job — The Man goes back to work. And the Boychick and I go back to hanging out alone together during the day. To say I am not looking forward to this would be both a misstatement and a [...] 31 August 2009 at 12:43 am | Category: Fathering, Mental Health, Parenting | Tags: bipolar, domesticity, well crap | 16 comments
Like this? Share it: I’m considering running a series of posts on how we live womanist/feminist parenting; a sort of kaleidoscope primer on the day-to-day living of those of us who fight, oppose, undermine, and dismantle the kyriarchy (or at least try to!) that can help answer the questions “Sure, this all sounds good, but how do you DO [...] 11 July 2009 at 10:00 am | Category: Fathering, Kyriarchy, Meta, Parenting, Patriarchy | Tags: blogging, fathers, Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer | 12 comments
Like this? Share it: How had I not discovered Daddy Dialectic before? You all must go read it. Now. Especially, especially Jeremy Adam Smith’s answers to his own modified version of bluemilk’s What does a feminist mother look like? questions. I think I’m in love. Platonically, of course. This is how feminists get a reputation for being humorless: we fail to laugh at jokes or quips that serve the kyriarchy. Like the one I heard yesterday, from D, an otherwise dear friend, spouse of my sister-in-all-but-genetics-and-law. He and The Man were outside with the Boychick and his cousin, watching them run through the [...] 5 July 2009 at 1:14 pm | Category: Fathering, Gender, Parenting, Patriarchy, Privilege | Tags: domesticity, feminists don't laugh, gender roles, male privilege, men, the double standard | 20 comments
Like this? Share it: Okeedoke, I was trying to write an entire actual, y’know, post to go with these comics, but… nah. Later, maybe. For now, a quick explanation: several years ago, long before the Boychick’s conception much less birth or extrauterine life (which is to say, way before I had any first-hand experience with any of this), I [...] 21 June 2009 at 10:55 pm | Category: Attachment Parenting, Fathering, Gender, Parenting | Tags: babywearing, breastfeeding, domesticity, fathers, men, pictures | 8 comments
Like this? Share it: The Man with no ponytail is hardly The Man at all. And also: It takes a lot longer than you’d think to cut through a braid. We were surprised, anyway. (I could go on a feminist rant about how ridiculous it is that women can have almost any length hair — as long as it’s pornulated [...] 23 May 2009 at 5:23 pm | Category: Fathering, Gender | Tags: fathers, gender roles, I don't Twitter, well crap | Be the first to comment!
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In my bathroom hangs a plaque with a picture of a yin yang and the word BALANCE. I can never get it to hang straight. This probably says something deep and meaningful about my life.
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