News Roundup
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Some of the articles of interest to working mothers that we’ve seen around the web recently…
- New York magazine’s The Cut shares a mom’s story of how she learned more from reading books to her child, including Good Night Vermont, than she did from studying traditional parenting books.
- My Domaine shares road trip ideas for kids that parents will also enjoy, from Savannah to Santa Fe.
- Working Mother shares how a former New Zealand lawmaker responded to criticisms about her flexible work schedule.
- Working Mother also shares why a “bad mommy” doesn’t take her kids to the park.
- Scary Mommy reports on a mom who was arrested for leaving her baby alone in a car (that was locked and heated on a 36-degree day) for three minutes.
- Scary Mommy also makes its case why lawyer moms make excellent moms. “Exhibit A. We read the fine print.”
- Parents magazine shares fashion designer and mom-to-be Lauren Conrad’s pregnancy confessions.
- Buzzfeed examines how “in transgressing the boundaries of the ‘cute celebrity pregnancy,'” Kim Kardashian “effectively called attention to the constrictive, regressive norms of how women, celebrity or not, are now expected to ‘perform’ pregnancy in public.”
- The Huffington Post has started a podcast about the challenges of infertility.
- The Huffington Post also shares a mom’s reaction to her “mommy makeover.”
- Fast Company reports that Gymboree has joined many other retailers that are going out of business.
- Recipe of the Week: Delish.com has suggestions for every day of the week, starting with Hawaiian grilled cheese.
- Laugh of the Week: The Onion reports, “pop icon Beyonce unexpectedly debuted a teaser foot Thursday ahead of the highly anticipated birth of her twins.”
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+1.
I feel like this is a dead horse, but the story about the mom who left her sleeping infant in the car for a few minutes while she ran in the store just makes me ragey.
Hot car deaths are a terrible, and terrifying in that they often happen accidentally because of curious unsupervised kids or parental memory glitches. Cases like the one in the news recently where the teen mom allegedly intentionally left her toddlers in a car overnight and halfway through the next day while she hung out with her friends are just awful and I’m 100% on board with her being prosecuted.
But this is not even remotely the same thing. I routinely put my baby in the car, then run back in the house to herd out the bigger kids. Or I have all the kids in the car, and run back in my house to grab bags, use the bathroom, turn off all the lights, whatever. Sometimes I’m gone for 3 minutes, for sure. If it weren’t for my fear of CPS (I live near the infamous kids-walking-to-the-playground-alone case a couple years back), I would totally run into a store really quick while my baby slept snug in the car on a cold day. I remember waiting in the car for my mom to do quick (<10 minutes) errands when I was a kid, and I survived! My grandma talks about how she and everyone else left their babies in prams on the sidewalk while they did their grocery shopping. We have come an awful long way in a few generations. A sleeping 3 month old in a secure location doesn't need to be supervised! I can't be the only one who put my baby in a crib and was asleep or out of sight/earshot for significantly longer. I think it's equally unlikely that someone would break into my house or my car (in broad daylight, in public, in a generally safe area, in a span of a few minutes) to steal or hurt a baby.
Normal life has non-zero risk, and it just p1sses me off so much that people would make someone's life difficult because of a vanishingly small difference in her risk tolerance that had no material impact. ugh