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This morning I accidentally washed my son’s mouth out with soap. Pro-tip: when you go to wash your kid’s face, check to see if their mouth is closed first.
What’s in your breasts that shouldn’t be and why?
Last week, Fresh Air on NPR interviewed Florence Williams, the author of Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History. Seriously, listen to this story. It is amazing. It covers everything from breastfeeding, to cancer, to plastic surgery, to male breast cancer, to chemicals in the home. I would love to go into more about it, but I can’t even figure out which topic to focus on. She goes into so many things, each more interesting than the last. If you listened to it, tell me what stood out most to you about this story.
“We used to think that breast milk was just a food and that it was filled with fats and proteins and vitamins and that formula companies were successfully able to mimic this. But we now know that there are substances in breast milk that exist almost at the same levels that are not digestible by infants. So what are they doing there? It turns out, they’re digestible by beneficial bacteria. So over millions of years, the mother has been creating a substance that will recruit useful bacteria into her infant’s gut and this sets her infant up for life. So as much as breast milk is a food, we also now understand that it’s also a medicine.”
(via yellowsparkleonionrings)
Great post on the “War on Moms” by David Vienna. Want to do something about the injustices parents face? Support MomsRising and become one of their members.
Dear Everyone:
It seems parenting has re-appeared as a hot topic in the news and not for reasons I would have liked. One stupid comment from a pundit and suddenly there’s a “War on Moms.” One muckraking cover from a magazine and everyone’s parenting style comes into question. One …
You know you are a mom when you go shopping for yourself and end up buying mostly things for your kid. I should never visit stores with a kid’s department. Never!!
Dear Media,
Please stop using the faux-word “Mompraneur.” Just because a female entrepreneur is a mother, and is inspired by her family life to establish a business doesn’t mean she needs “mom” added to her descriptor. When a father starts a business no one calls him a “dadpraneur.” He’s just an unremarkable “entrepreneur.” The term mompraneur is just sexist and condescending—as if her idea is less valuable, or even “cute” because she’s a mom. Mothers who start business are doing something no different from other business developers: identifying a need for a product or service and filling that need. They aren’t mompraneurs. They are just entrepreneurs. Show some respect and don’t dumb-down their descriptor. I’ll step off my soap-box now.
Thank you,
FullyD
Eating is the highest form of flattery. Maurice, if I could feed your books to my family for dinner I would. Instead, we will just read In the Night Kitchen and shed a tear for the man who inspired so many creative and adventurous moments. You will be missed.
From Friday Reads’ Facebook Page (h/t Sarah Grace Delia)
Here are my favorite things about this story:
- This kid LOVES his grandma.
- His backpack was filled with necessities: candy.
- He blames his inability to reach his grandma in the hospital on a lack of GPS.
Lordy though, do I feel for that mom wondering where her kid was.
npr:
“He didn’t really know the way to the hospital. But he blamed that on his bike for not being fitted with SAT NAV,” said a police spokesperson, referring to Satellite Navigation.
(via 2-Year-Old Noah Joel Rides Toy Bike 3 Miles To See Sick Grandmother In Hamelin, Germany)
On “Nature and sex and petrified penises”
So I had a whole commentary on my previous post that didn’t show up (annoying!!) anyhow, what I’d intended to say was the following:
This conversation between a father and seven-year-old son about sex is well worth the read. It is long, and super detailed, but a really interesting insight into one parent’s thoughtful approach to addressing this sensitive subject. There are things that I would do differently: God wouldn’t enter the conversation, I would not condemn sex before marriage, I wouldn’t be so heteronormative. That said, I’m impressed that this dad was so patient with this conversation, that he didn’t dumb it down, and that he had this conversation when his son was seven. These conversations are so important to have early and often. At every age the conversation looks different, and this is a great example of what it might look like with a precocious kid.
