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Snow Days, Pancakes, and Energy Justice

Joellen Raderstorf | Posted 10.30.2009 | Denver

Read More: Cookstoves, Energy, Energy Oppressed Poor, University-of-Colorado-Professor, Children, Snow, Global Footprint, University of Colorado at Boulder, Energy Policy, Mothers, Denver News
Joellen Raderstorf

While I'm living the "make every minute count" lifestyle, nearly one third of my fellow global family members rely primarily on biomass-based fire to meet all their energy needs.

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Shriver Report: Get Married, Have Kids, Then We'll Speak to Your Issues

Bella DePaulo | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Workforce, Social Security, Singled Out, Pay, Divorce, Children, Matrimania, A Woman’s Nation, Gloria Steinem, Nonfamily Households, Media, Childless Women, Business, Ideology, Consciousness-Raising, Friendship, Compulsory Heterosexuality, Politics, Compulsory Mothering, Singlism, Discrimination, Breadwinners, Health Care, Couples, Family, Women’s Media Center, Taxes, Connection, Single-Person Households, Wives, Compulsory Marriage, Money, Women’s Movement, Suze Orman, Shriver Report, Singles, Maria Shriver, Time Magazine, Mothers, Gender, Education, Oprah Winfrey, Career, Workplace, Unmarried America, John Podesta, Adrienne Rich, Living News
Bella DePaulo

I'll highlight some remarkable and conventional-wisdom-defying findings from the report that were published but never headlined.

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Swine Flu, Climate Change and a Middle-of-the-Night Tantrum

Joellen Raderstorf | Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver

Read More: Environment, H1n1, Mothers, Climate Change, Swine Flu, India, World Health Organization, Politics of Food, World Hunger, International Day of Climate Action, Famine, Who, Food, Global Warming, Denver News
Joellen Raderstorf

Where is our collective panic about climate change? Our energy consumptive lifestyles do not blink in the quake of devastating floods, receding glaciers and starving children.

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Fathers: An Instruction Manual -- For You and Dad, Opportunity Is What You Make It

Peggy Drexler | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Fathers and Daughters, Mothers, Family, Fathers, Living News
Peggy Drexler

Throughout much of history, mothers were the center of a daughter's universe. But as young women join the world their fathers know, it's a whole new age of possibility for a daughter-father relationship.

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Motherhood Is Not Just For Mothers

Katherine Dieckmann | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Minnie Driver, Films, Motherhood, Anthony Edwards, Uma Thurman, Mothers, Movies, Living News
Katherine Dieckmann

Movies are stories. Stories that take us places we may not have been to before, in the hope of enlarging our sense of human drama or frailty or complexity.

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Nestlé and the Mommy Wars

Joellen Raderstorf | Posted 10.07.2009 | Denver

Read More: Child Slaves, Corporations, Nestle, Baby Formula, Mommy Wars, Mothers, Social Media, Twitter, Corporate Social Responsibility, Denver News
Joellen Raderstorf

Last week, Nestlé flew a group of mom bloggers to Pasadena. A few attendees took the opportunity to bring up Nestlé's practice of sourcing cocoa harvested by children on Twitter.

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An Interview with Brooke Burke (VIDEO)

Jeff Rivera | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Brooke Burke, Mothers, Jeff Rivera, Modern Mom, Video, Interview, Brooke Burke Dancing With the Stars, Entertainment News
Jeff Rivera

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Moms: A New School Year Can Spell Sleep Relief (or Not)

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Moms, Sleep Hygiene, Disordered Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, Mothers, Sleep, Living News
Dr. Michael J. Breus

Men and women do share more household responsibilities now more than ever, but it's still the women who carry the heaviest load of caretaking, basically acting as CEO of a family.

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Learning from Laura Ingraham, Believe it or Not

Tamar Abrams | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Liberals, Laura Ingraham, Daughters, Population Action International, Planned Parenthood, Huffington Post, Mothers, Amy Coen, Pai, Media News
Tamar Abrams

I agreed to do the show because it was about moms and daughters, a topic on which there's no political epicenter, and because my daughter was participating in the interview.

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Good Grieving

Elizabeth Donoghue | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Grief, General Hospital, Mothers, Escape, Mourning, Death, Living News
Elizabeth Donoghue

I try to honor my mother by my actions. She left her children a note. It says "help each other always." In her honor, I try to be there for my family more than ever.

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A Sobering Development in Crash of Mother and Kids

Juli Charkes | Posted 09.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Criminal, Westchester, Drunk Driving, Crime, Diane Schuler, Mothers, Tragedy, Taconic, New York, New York News
Juli Charkes

Rates of mothers driving while drunk with their offspring in the car have risen steadily in suburban areas like Westchester -- to the point where police say they made it a priority focus.

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Girlfriends' Guide To Parenting Your Parents: They Are So Hard To Discipline

Vicki Iovine | Posted 08.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Elder Care, Parenting, Parents, Mothers, Fathers, Living News
Vicki Iovine

I only have one parent left out of two biologicals and two in-laws and I cherish her, honestly, I do. But after this week, I'm dangerously close to ta...

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Rome Taxi Daddy

Juliet Linley | Posted 08.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Parenting, Mothers, Family, Parents, Living News
Juliet Linley

You spend a lot of time apologizing to cab drivers when you have a small child: "Sorry about the screaming," "Sorry about the cracker crumbs," "Sorry about the flying rattle."

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It's Time to Make Mothers a Priority

Sia Nyama Koroma | Posted 08.03.2009 | World

Read More: Sierra Leone, Millennium Development Goals, Mothers, Africa, Maternal Mortality, World News
Sia Nyama Koroma

Maternal mortality has sadly become the rule not the exception. But this can change. We have the knowledge and the skills to deliver -- we just need the political will and resources to support us.

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Motherhood: The Ultimate Training Ground For Enlightenment

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 08.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Enlightenment, The Inner Life, Mothers, Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

I am constantly amazed by the depth of training provided by motherhood for seeking "enlightenment."

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Parenting: Don't Over-Worry About Your Teen

Psychology Today | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Adolescence, Mental Health, Relationships, Teens, Parenting, Mothers, Troubled Teens, Teenagers, Worry, Fathers, Risk-Taking, Living News

The harsh reality is that their teenager can't grow up without taking risks, can't take risks without denying danger, and can't deny danger without cr...

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Kindergarten Cop: Let Your Kids Catch You Breaking the Law

Patrick Boyle | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Girls, Traffic, Driving, Dad, Dads, Children, Kids, Daughters, Cars, Fatherhood, Parenting, Mothers, Fathers, Parents, Living News
Patrick Boyle

Our 6-year-old is enforcing the law from her booster seat again. Who got the bright idea to build Jaycie's literacy skills by encouraging her to read road signs?

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Incorporating Mindfulness into Motherhood

Cassandra Vieten | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Parenting Tips, Mindful Motherhood, Mindfulness, Newborns, Motherhood, Parenting, Babies, Mothers, Living News
Cassandra Vieten

Mindful Motherhood is a way of approaching all of the experiences you'll encounter as a mom with open eyes and an open heart.

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The Bad Mother Conundrum

Libby Mitchell | Posted 07.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Blogs, Nadya Suleman, Dooce, Children, Mothers, Blogging, Adoption, Motherhood, Living News
Libby Mitchell

Does any mother actually feel like they are doing a good job? I am asking these questions due to my (hopefully) impending motherhood. How am I supposed to do their hair? I can barely do mine.

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A Mother like Sotomayor or Spelling: a Saint or a Sinner?

Darryle Pollack | Posted 06.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Tori Spelling, Mothers, Sonia Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Single Mothers, Working Mothers, Motherhood, Sonia Sotomayor Style, Living News
Darryle Pollack

I suspect Celina Sotomayor and Candy Spelling don't just have matching initials and famous daughters in common. I suspect they have something else in common: with each other, with me, and with all mothers. They're not perfect.

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Controversial New Group: Drunk Drivers Against Mothers

Tom McCaffrey | Posted 06.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Vice President, Drunk, Church, Jagermeister, Beer, Cinemax, Pregnancy, Cars, Porn, Mothers, Colorado, Drunk Driving, Beer Pong, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Madd, Teen Pregnancy, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Fraternities, Public Urinating, Comedy News
Tom McCaffrey

"My mom is always like 'I can't believe you got drunk and then drove our new car into a lake again'. I'm like fuck you! I like to party! You're just mad because you can't party as hard as me! Delta Chi forever!"

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On Mothers Day: Caging a Nightingale

Ian Welsh | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Mother's Day, Cancer, Mothers, Living News
Ian Welsh

My mother had been broken. The woman she was had died. Like a man who cages a nightingale in his fist, by not letting it have any freedom, my father had killed what he loved.

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The Most Important Letters We Will Ever Write: Memory and Meaning - Mother's Day

Rachael Freed | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Legacy Writing, Mother's Day, Mothers, Living News
Rachael Freed

Realizing that life is fragile we feel the urgent need to document our legacies to help shape this unfolding new world.

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In Memory of Mom

Melissa Hapke | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Lung Cancer, Mother's Day, Mothers, Sacrifice, Living News

While growing up, I couldn't appreciate the sacrifices my mother made for me, or for us. I do now though.

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The Best Damn Sports Mom, Period.

Chris Kyle | Posted 06.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: New England Patriots, Manny Ramirez, Jerry Remy, Mother's Day, Boston Celtics, Coach K, Duke University, John Irving, Red Sox, Mothers, Grandmothers, North Carolina, Johnny Most, Boston Red Sox, Entertainment News
Chris Kyle

My mom is an unusual sports fan. She doesn't use the word hate and she's never booed a single team or person in her life.

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