Catherine Connors
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Catherine Connors is a writer living in Bowmanville, Ontario. She is the author of the popular parenting blog, HerBadMother.com, which was named in the top ten of Babble.com's Top Fifty Mom Bloggers, and the co-founder of The Bad Moms Club. A former political scientist and frequent contributor to a variety of online and offline publications, she has written extensively on motherhood and parenting and the place and reception of these in political thought and in popular culture.

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PBS's 'This Emotional Life': Now Is the Moment to Hold Your Child

0 Comments | Posted May 9, 2010 | 7:00 AM

Some nights, I curl up in bed with my little girl. She lays her head against my arm and grips my fingers with her tiny hand and whispers, I want you to stay here with me, Mommy.

Yes, I say. I want you to stay here with me, too.

And...

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The Green(er) Mile

0 Comments | Posted July 23, 2007 | 11:02 AM

To be perfectly honest, when the idea of organizing a road trip as a means of transporting six Toronto mommy-bloggers to the BlogHer conference in Chicago at the end of this month first occurred to me, I was not thinking green.

I was thinking green 1966 Thunderbird convertible, top...

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Mutha Fear

0 Comments | Posted August 29, 2006 | 7:05 AM

I always prided myself on my courage, on my daring, on my guts. Anything that I've ever wanted, I've pursued. I never gave a second thought to fear. And if I did give it a second thought, it was this: hello, Fear. I am not afraid.

But then I...

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