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Has Cinderella eaten your daughter?
If you have a daughter, you should know about Peggy Orenstein. The author and New York Times Magazine writer may not be able to keep marketers from reaching your daughter and teaching her to believe all sorts of twisted things about femininity and sexuality, but she can and does call them out on it.
Last night Orenstein spoke on a panel at New York City’s 92nd Street Y Tribeca sponsored by Slate‘s women’s section, Double X. Joining Orenstein were Virginia Heffernan, the Times Magazine‘s media critic; former Nickelodian executive Tom Ascheim; and Slate editor Mike Agger, who moderated. The topic was, naturally, how marketers target both girls and boys in negative, often gendered ways.
The four panelists, at least three of them parents (I’m not sure whether Agger has kids), covered a lot of ground in the hour-long discussion, Continue reading »
Our Mom with Clout contest winner, Sausage Mama
We’re thrilled to announce that the winner of our Mom with Clout contest is Sausage Mama.
This 26-year-old Aussie mom of two is an online wunderkind — in just two years she has built an online community of moms worldwide who look to her for guidance on attachment parenting, natural childbirth, breastfeeding and more. Continue reading »
Watch out reality TV, here I come!
A guest post from Top 50 Mom Blogger Lenore Skenazy:
Reality TV, baby! That’s where I’m heading. I’m about to become the sort of Not-So-Super Nanny who comes to the homes of overprotective, worried-sick parents and says, “You can loosen up. It’s okay.”
Why? Continue reading »
What would you ask this mom?
Okay, we’re totally obsessed with mom bloggers, but you already know that by now. You’ve seen our list of the Top 50 Mom Bloggers of 2010, and you’ve nominated your favorite, too.
To dive further into the lives of our Top 50, we’ve asked them a series of questions for each month of 2011. This month (just in time for Valentine’s Day), we asked them to ask their children, “Why do you love Mommy?” The answers are totally adorable.
Now it’s your turn to ask the Top 50 a question.
If you could ask our Top 50 Mom Bloggers one thing, what would it be? Continue reading »
If you or your kids have logged into World of Warcraft recently, you might be getting an error stating “Launching cannot obtain patching information.” Before you restart your computer, successfully download the new patch, and continue playing, consider this — is World of Warcraft a safe game for kids to be playing anyway?
When I was tween (back before the Warcraft franchise was WOW), I spent countless hours playing this game with my dad. He would set up on his work computer, and I would be in the room right next to him on our home computer. It was our special time and we would work together to win at a game, which yes, had a violent premise, but was not graphic by any means. It was actually kind of hard and required lots of teamwork and strategy — definitely great for developing young minds’ problem solving skills.
But how has technology changed since then, and why is it more dangerous?
Students take a moment of silence for victims of Tucson shooting
This morning, at 11a.m. Eastern Time, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama led the nation in a moment of silence to honor of the victims of the tragedy in Tucson this weekend.
The Tucson tragedy took place Saturday, January 8 when 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughman opened fire at the meeting “Congress on Your Corner” at a Safeway supermarket in Tucson, Arizona. The Arizona shooter killed six people, including 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green (granddaughter of former Phillies manager Dallas Green) and injured 14 others, including U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who is now in stable condition.
At Pioneer Elementary School in Mesa, Arizona, students participated in today’s moment of silence for one minute by stopping classes and putting their heads on their desks.
Pioneer principal Mike Davis announced the moment of silence earlier that morning, telling the students, “On Saturday, Jan. 8, a senseless act of violence was perpetrated in Tucson. This is a time to come together in prayer or reflection, keeping the victims and their families close to our hearts.”
Pioneer was not the only school to observe Obama’s request for a moment of silence. All over the country, schools made the decision to participate. Many teachers have also worked the news of the shooting into their curriculum, using it as a learning opportunity.
Can the U.S. Constitution reading make history cool again?
This morning, in a historical, first-time event, the House of Representatives read parts of the U.S. Constitution aloud. The reading was an effort organized in order to bring the country back to its political roots.
This historic occasion is good news for kids. In a world where kids are immersed in texting, iPods, Facebook, Twitter and other technology that didn’t exist more than a couple decades ago, the reading of the Constitution is a great way to bring kids back to the old-school and give them a healthy dose of history in a way that’s more accessible than through the pages of their dusty textbooks.
Remember the School House Rock’s video of the U.S. Constitution’s Preamble (“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union…”)? Putting the Preamble into song helped many kids “back then” memorize it and maybe, just maybe, go on to read other parts of the Constitution.
Keeping history alive and entertaining for kids is an ongoing struggle. How do you make a long document packed with formal language and a bunch of old guys in wigs seem cool for kids?
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