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• Issues! 'Parenting' Offers Fake Apology

  I'm plowing through my stack of unread magazines -- grows much like laundry, only this one I actually pay attention to -- and this non-apology in the May issue of Parenting: Early Years caught my eye. Apparently, some readers called them out for a LIT-tle too much eye rolling over "natural" (orgasmic and/or epidural-free) childbirth. But in saying they're sorry, the editors wind up ridiculing some childbirth experiences, which they purport to be fully in support of.   Read More... Posted May 15 2009, 05:27 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, magazines, childbirth accidents, judgmental mothers, As the Cookie Crumbles, issues, mama guilt, naturalral birth

• Smackdown: Barbie and the End of the World

  We planned this Smackdown awhile ago, not long after my daughter opened a Scuba Barbie for Christmas. Her grandparents, who had refused to purchase a Barbie for their own daughter, were beyond thrilled to buy one for mine. "Every girl should have a Barbie," they gushed. My wife stared at them in slack-jawed, open-mouth wonder. "What the hell?" she said, "I wanted a Barbie for years!" If someone had taken Tiny Tim's crutch and beaten him about his frail, twisted legs while eating all the Christmas goose, it still would have been a merrier scene than the one at our house at that moment. Read More... Posted Jan 09 2009, 08:06 AM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, barbie, girls, dolls, smackdown, insecurity, issues