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• Move Over Kid -- Making Room for Your Spouse

  Kristen Chase over at Motherhood Uncensored has a wonderful and touching essay up about what can happen to a marriage when one or two or more kids enter the picture: "Truthfully, the instant my daughter arrived, she took up most of my heart. I   Read More... Posted Sep 16 2008, 02:02 PM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with no comments Filed under: parenting, marriage, motherhood uncensored, essays, kristin chase

• Parenting Post-80s ... Oh the Baggage!

  Despite her bizarre choices of writers to fill in for her during a break (this will become apparent tomorrow), I am loving CityMama's mad tribute to All Things '80s, which kicks off today with a hilarious and insightful essay on going from Club Kid to Club Parent from Jessica Ashley of Sassafrass: "Maybe I cling to that part of me because sometimes I still rely on certain shoes or skinny pants to get me in the mood for whatever doors I will be walking through that day. It's just that, on the other side of these doors, I'm much more likely to find tricycles and aisles of organic soy butter than young boys in Z Cavs and the uh-uh-uhhhh of Frankie Goes to Hollywood sampled into New Order. The attitude's the same, though, and occasionally even the red lipstick." And oh there's more ... so, so much more.   Read More... Posted Aug 25 2008, 10:19 AM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with no comments Filed under: parenting, essays, Jessica Ashley, CityMama, guess, 80s, girbaud, robert palmer

• The Human Element of War

  No matter what you think of the Iraq War (or any war for that matter) I think it's important to remember the human side of things. The soldiers aren't only fighters, they're people. Some of them are even parents. In her terrific Personal Essay titled "Return to the Home Front", Korinthia Klein tells us what it was like when her husband Ian came home from "over there." It's all worth reading, but here are a couple of highlights: Read More... Posted Jun 14 2008, 02:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with no comments Filed under: politics, iraq, war, family, families, george bush, barack obama, essays, republicans, Democrats, election, obama, McCain, John McCain, iran, Brett Singer, irate, policy, 2008, george w bush, coming home

• Dooce Meet-Up Tonight And Dad Book Signing

  I've read a few essays from "Things I Learned About My Dad (in Therapy)" -- all from bloggers and compiled by Heather Dooce Armstrong -- and I have to say I'm impressed. And why not? She asked for fatherhood essays from some of the web's best parenting bloggers, and lohd ahmighty, did she get them. Read More... Posted May 07 2008, 01:28 PM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: dooce, New York, essays, book, meet-up

• Mommy Myth Thang Raises Usual Ire

  Okay, now I thought the whole mom-bloggin' empire was built on the idea that motherhood isn't all soft-lit tender moments and rosy outlook, but I guess this continues to be a newsflash. Winifred Robinson wrote an essay basically saying, "Hey, sometimes I don't like being a mom cuz it sucks at times" she included the usual "I wouldn't trade it for anything" but yes, she was clear that it can be brutal hard work too. And she also said something I think gets neglected: For some of us, motherhood is a bucket of cold water in the face because we were used to feeling capable and good at life, and that feeling often gets sucked right out of you with the first nursing, and doesn't come back for a loooong time. But of course her post drew some criticism, along with the gratitude of other moms... Read More... Posted Dec 20 2007, 06:30 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, infants, essays, mom blogs, huffpo, challenges, mommy myth

• Strollerderby Playdate: Sometimes You Feel Like a Blog, Sometimes You Don’t

  Don’t get me wrong, I love blogging for Strollerderby. Instead of reacting to the day's news with long-winded diatribes delivered to my confused 2-year-old, I get to post them for grown-ups who might actually give a rip. And something about blogging makes me want to read even more blogs than I had before, which is just a fun, fun thing to get to do “for work.” You know? But I’m an essay writer at heart. Though I love the snappy, instant reactions of bloggers, there’s nothing more satisfying than sinking my web browser into a carefully shaped piece with characters and dialogue and a beginning, middle and end. So while I’m keeping up with my regulars in blogland ... Read More... Posted Oct 15 2007, 07:02 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: parenting bloggers, essays, strollerderby playdate, Madeline Holler

• Moms Make the Best Cheerleaders

  In a fantastic essay in the San Francisco Chronicle this weekend, writer Meganne Fabrega recounts the time when her young daughter first asked if she was "heavy."  As I turn to look at her my heart feels as though it's been ripped out of my chest. I knew that this moment would arrive. It's not surprise that the moment arrives for many people, given our cultural obsession with perfect bodies and a storybook version of what girls -- and eventually women - -should look like. So how do parents cope? How do they give their children self-esteem before sending them out on their own? All I can do is drill over and over into her still-open mind: What really counts is how you feel about yourself. It's worth a read.  Posted Jul 30 2007, 02:56 PM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with no comments Filed under: essays, essentials

• Date Night Is for Losers

  During a date night dinner last fall, Dana pushed aside a candle, leaned over the clean, white table cloth and confessed that, earlier in the day, she had thought of three things to talk to about. "Just so, you know ..." And I did. I did know. "I thought of a few things, too," I whispered back. And we laughed, shared a toast of wine and conversed about the things we had practiced conversing about until, inevitably, we slipped back into what has become a familiar pattern: talking about our daughter. Read More... Posted Jul 16 2007, 08:29 AM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: culture, date night, essays, dates

• Babble Talk: Pax Thien Jolie's Road Ahead

  Babble essayist Melissa Eva Miller writes poignantly about the comparisions between her own adoption experience and Angelina Jolie's. Both mothers adopted from Asia. Both mothers adopted older children, not babies. Both mothers will surely have to deal with the effects of culture shock on their children. But while the Jolie-Pitts will be able to whisk their children back to their birth countries at anytime, Miller's family will have to scrimp and save to be able to afford another China trip. In the meantime, they've learned to bring culture to their child rather than the other way around. Except it doesn't always work out as planned. Check out: Culture Shock. Posted Apr 06 2007, 05:27 PM by Stefania Pomponi Butler (CityMama) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: adoption, angelina jolie, Babble, pax thien jolie, culture shock, essays, melissa eva miller