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Play Gender Bias Bingo!
Joan Williams | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
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For over a decade, I have studied thirty years of experimental social psychology studies of gender bias. One message is clear -- gender bias, alas, is alive and well.
Mother Blaming Has to Stop
Peggy Drexler | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
For mother-blaming and self-blaming to ever stop, mothers are going to have to be seen -- and see themselves -- as individuals rather than symbols or caricatures.
Snow Days, Pancakes, and Energy Justice
Joellen Raderstorf | Posted 10.30.2009 | Denver
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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.
Shriver Report: Get Married, Have Kids, Then We'll Speak to Your Issues
Bella DePaulo | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living
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I'll highlight some remarkable and conventional-wisdom-defying findings from the report that were published but never headlined.
Swine Flu, Climate Change and a Middle-of-the-Night Tantrum
Joellen Raderstorf | Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver
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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.
Fathers: An Instruction Manual -- For You and Dad, Opportunity Is What You Make It
Peggy Drexler | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
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.
Motherhood Is Not Just For Mothers
Katherine Dieckmann | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living
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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.
Nestlé and the Mommy Wars
Joellen Raderstorf | Posted 10.07.2009 | Denver
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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.
An Interview with Brooke Burke (VIDEO)
Jeff Rivera | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment
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Moms: A New School Year Can Spell Sleep Relief (or Not)
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living
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.
Learning from Laura Ingraham, Believe it or Not
Tamar Abrams | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
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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.
Good Grieving
Elizabeth Donoghue | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
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.
A Sobering Development in Crash of Mother and Kids
Juli Charkes | Posted 09.05.2009 | New York
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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.
Girlfriends' Guide To Parenting Your Parents: They Are So Hard To Discipline
Vicki Iovine | Posted 08.17.2009 | Living
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...
Rome Taxi Daddy
Juliet Linley | Posted 08.13.2009 | Living
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."
It's Time to Make Mothers a Priority
Sia Nyama Koroma | Posted 08.03.2009 | World
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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.
Motherhood: The Ultimate Training Ground For Enlightenment
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 08.02.2009 | Living
I am constantly amazed by the depth of training provided by motherhood for seeking "enlightenment."
Parenting: Don't Over-Worry About Your Teen
Psychology Today | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living
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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...
Kindergarten Cop: Let Your Kids Catch You Breaking the Law
Patrick Boyle | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living
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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?
Incorporating Mindfulness into Motherhood
Cassandra Vieten | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living
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Mindful Motherhood is a way of approaching all of the experiences you'll encounter as a mom with open eyes and an open heart.
The Bad Mother Conundrum
Libby Mitchell | Posted 07.20.2009 | Living
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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.
A Mother like Sotomayor or Spelling: a Saint or a Sinner?
Darryle Pollack | Posted 06.30.2009 | Living
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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.
Controversial New Group: Drunk Drivers Against Mothers
Tom McCaffrey | Posted 06.20.2009 | Comedy
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"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!"
On Mothers Day: Caging a Nightingale
Ian Welsh | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living
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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