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My breasts ache.

The Boychick hadn’t nursed in two weeks, then asked for milk again one morning. He latched on for half a minute each side, as much as I could stand, as little as I could stand to offer him.

I thought that was why my breasts were aching.

Might it be…? It couldn’t be. I’m sure [...]

Invitations, Not Resolutions

Welcome to the January Carnival of Natural Parenting: Parenting
resolutions!

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 we want to parent differently — or the same — in the New Year. Please read to the end to [...]

Why I say I’m OK

I am a very out person about my mood disorder. I wrote about it and talked about it in all my college applications and interviews; I mention it to everyone I know whenever relevant (and it often is); it’s in my bio here and on most social networking sites. I am an advocate for openness, [...]

Toddlers are triggering

Raising toddlers is hard.

This is not a radical statement, nor should it contain information new to anyone who has had toddlers, met toddlers, read about toddlers, knows the word toddlers… Point is, it is a well-known and thoroughly-accepted truism.

But why?

I’m not trying to challenge the truth of it: while I think many mainstream-Western parenting practices [...]

A matter of perspective

Let’s consider two scenarios:

The first: I was accosted by a rude woman in the deli aisle, who questioned my parenting — no, accused me of Bad Mothering! — by interrupting me dishing up a soup sample for the Boychick, with a snotty voice, saying “This stuff is really hot!” How dare she insinuate I [...]

What price mental health? part II

The overall piece is on the literal and figurative costs of bipolar disorder: getting to sanity, staying sane while parenting, and raising a child with a high likelihood of inheriting the tendency. Part one, the preamble, is here. Part two covers the actual dollar costs of getting me to stable; I have limited it [...]

What price mental health? part I

I’ve decided to publish this article in most-likely-three parts, after seeing how long just the preamble was, then how much length the now-lost (thanks, iPhone) second part added to it, and knowing how much I wanted to talk about in the final section. The overall piece is on the literal and figurative costs of [...]