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The lies that happen when Mommy is stalling
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The News: Breastfeeding bills, obesity report cards, more |
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Textured
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DAWN FRIEDMAN
When a white mama does her African-American daughter's hair, it's not just playing beauty shop. Race, parenting, and cultural standards collide.
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Two Lesbians and a Eunuch
BY ADRIENNE DEANGELO
The circumcision question. Two mothers ponder the penis more than they ever thought they would. |
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Is Juliet Schor Right About Kids and TV?
NELL BERAM says no, it's the great unifier
AUDREY SCHULMAN says, yes, the tube is malignant
Two mothers square off on the arguments in the book Born to Buy.
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Back to Cool
BY MARY O'CONNELL
Sometimes it takes a punk rock show to get a mother's back-to-school anxiety sedated.
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Mad About Sports
BY KATE HAAS
A lifelong lover of books and hater of dodgeball discovers the jock in her four-year-old. Talk about the passion. |
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Close Encounters with Kindermusik
BY ELISABETH DE VOS
She's fixated on germs and the environment—and on providing her daughter with a well-rounded life. Is her problem with Kindermusik part of her OCD or something else?
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Soccer Mom Loses Her Kick
BY TRACY MAYOR
Starved after decades on the sound-bite diet, can mothers get some meat from politicians in '08?
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Alma Mater
BY KORY STAMPER
In her last year at a feminist women's college, a student gets pregnant and chooses motherhood. Irony ensues.
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Holding Baby Birds
BY VALERIE WEAVER-ZERCHER
A tragedy nearby, unimaginable loss, and the two-part contract of life and death.
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Dr. Johnson, Daddy Blogger
BY JESSICA FRANCIS KANE
A fortnight after the birth of his son, the famed Samuel Johnson blogs his way through fatherhood.
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Stump
BY KYO MACLEAR
"She is wearing heather gray long johns and an oversize white tee-shirt. She tries not to look at her reflection in the glossy white counter tiles, concentrates instead on the music, the bouncy, brass-filled harmonies."
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In Vitro Veritas
BY STEPHANIE WILKINSON
Reviews of three recent books that take on the ethics, experience, and complications of reproductive technology: Beth Kohl's Embryo Culture, Liza Mundy's Everything Conceivable, and Peggy Orenstein's Waiting for Daisy.
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Knit One, Write Two
BY NORAH PIEHL
Family and knitting meet in knit-lit
Plus The Reading Chair - Books we like |
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A Mommy's Soliloquy
BY JENNIFER ROBERTS
Breastfeeding, with inspiration from The Bard
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