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Welcome to the May Carnival of Natural Parenting: Role model This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have waxed poetic about how their parenting has inspired others, or how others have inspired them. Please read to the end [...] 11 May 2010 at 1:13 am | Category: Gender, Kyriarchy, Parenting | Tags: Carnival of Natural Parenting, gender roles, misogyny, self-deprecation, societal pressures | 20 comments
Like this? Share it: A reader, bless her beautiful heart, recently asked if I had “ever thought of a book.” This comment, while breathtakingly sweet and a balm to my self-scathing soul, betrays a fairly fundamental lack of understanding of what it means to me to have bipolar disorder. Have I ever thought about writing a book? Being bipolar means [...] 17 July 2009 at 11:15 pm | Category: Mental Health, Meta | Tags: bipolar, blogging, grandiosity, self-deprecation | 7 comments
Like this? Share it: (Inspired by an off-hand comment from a friend of mine, but applicable to pretty much every mom I’ve ever met. Very, very few of the dads, though. And no, that is not a coincidence.) Allowing, or even encouraging, your toddler to watch TV does not make you a bad mom (or mum). Using disposable diapers/nappies, [...] 13 April 2009 at 9:26 pm | Category: Attachment Parenting, Parenting, Patriarchy | Tags: falling short, misogyny, self-deprecation, the double standard, TV-free | 30 comments
Like this? Share it: I have some talent musically. I studied piano for twelve years, and tutored it for a summer after high school. I played the sax in band, first the alto then the bari. I can play an octave on a dozen instruments, and pick out the three-note melody for Mary Had a Little Lamb on [...] 11 January 2009 at 9:43 pm | Category: Kyriarchy, Mental Health | Tags: self-deprecation | 2 comments
Like this? Share it: Blogs scare me. I grew up writing journal entries for teachers to read, honed my essayist’s pen on college entrance applications, found my voice on mothering forums, so you’d think I’d be a natural. But there’s a pressure with blogs that there isn’t on a discussion board, nor even with college apps: [...] 27 December 2008 at 3:38 pm | Category: Meta | Tags: introduction, punctuation, self-deprecation | 2 comments
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Arwyn
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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