News Roundup
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Some of the articles of interest to working mothers that we’ve seen around the web recently…
- If you’re trying to find your style after kids, it’s worth noting that both Fabulous After 40 and 40+Style feature older style bloggers regularly.
- Bad news for Japanese Weekend fans: The popular maternity retailer is no more (as the designer/founder recently reported on the blog).
- In New York magazine’s The Cut, a mom wonders how to help her young daughter have a healthy relationship with her body.
- A Hellobee blogger shares all the details of her family’s expenses during her son’s first year … which added up to more than $18,000.
- The Wall Street Journal reports that the middle school years aren’t just tough for kids; mothers feel the worst about their parenting when their kids are that age.
- At JSTOR Daily, Alexandra Samuel writes, “When we fret about excess screen time as bad parenting, what we’re really talking about is bad mothering.”
- Scary Mommy reviews the viral tale of the dad who had to clean up his son’s vomit in the car — it escalated quickly (although it wasn’t entirely true, he said later).
- For your Laugh of the Week, Maura Quint explains in McSweeney’s how women should ask for a raise.
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Anyone else surprised that that parent didn’t spend anything on classes or activities for baby or save anything for college? Weird.
Re: The Middle School Years — When I was a childhood bookworm looking for SOMETHING to read, I grabbed my mom’s copy of Surviving Ophelia. I was probably 8-10th grade at the time. What I got out of the book then, besides that middle school girls are crazy, was that their parents and esp. moms are, too — middle-aged (or older) and going through their own transitions of marriage, relationships, work, family, etc. I got that THEN. It didn’t seem to be called out in the book by the author per se, but was a readily observable pattern in the lives of these young women. It’s affected me as a mom – when and when not to share what you’ve been going through with your kid, when to protect them from it, how to reassure them that the kid’s well-being always comes first (except in emergencies, and even then, that’s what the “village” is for)
I’m starting a pregnancy wardrobe from scratch. What are the basics? I work in a business casual office (could wear nice jeans / trendy sneakers every day if I wanted to, when clients aren’t around), so I’m looking for pieces that’ll work in my real life and at work. Also, I’m plus size. I’m looking at Destination Maternity, JCPenney and Kohl’s, but feel completely overwhelmed by the choices (and why, oh why does practically every t-shirt for pregnant women only come in horizontal stripe!?)
Oh please. Searches on kids and screen time have increased because SCREENS have increased, not because of patriarchy. Adults are worried about their own screen time, too. And it’s not that portable screens can be used in the public space. It’s because portable screens mean that to screen or not to screen is a question that can be asked anywhere, not just in the living room like it was pre-iPhone.
Also, I am so completely sick of people misusing the term “capitalism.” Capitalism is not materialism or social Darwinism or whatever else people want to use it as. It’s a system in which the type and quantity of goods and services for sale, and the prices at which they are sold are determined by private actors in response to market conditions. Nothing more and nothing less. You really, honestly, truly can be an anti-materialist capitalist. I promise. It just means you don’t think the government should be doing central planning on what’s available in the market and at what price. You’re even a capitalist if you think we need more government controls on things. It just means you’re in favor of a weak form of capitalism, that you think it basically works but that it has a large number of failures that are best addressed through regulation. It doesn’t mean you’re in favor of the patriarchy. Or that you’re super competitive. Or heartless. Or think it’s poor people’s own fault that they’re poor. Or that you’re opposed to a social safety net. It means none of these things. I thought JSTOR was supposed to be academic. This is shoddiness worthy of clickbait trolling.
Ha, I wish I could get 10 months of infant care for $11k.