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• Mom Found Guilty of Trespassing After Jumping on Speeding School Bus

  A Raeford, North Carolina, mother says she feels relieved after receiving a guilty verdict in connection with her actions in January, when she boarded a school bus she says was speeding through a residential neighborhood. Mindy Brumfiel says the bus appeared to be traveling more than 40 miles an hour in a 15 mile per hour zone, and so when it stopped, she got on. After the bus driver asked her to get off, she said she wouldn't until she got her own daughter off -- then proceded to call the driver and idiot and tell him he was speeding. Read More... Posted Mar 04 2009, 01:31 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: mother, parents, mothers, school bus safety, speeding, bus, school bus, maternal instinct, trespassing, speeding school bus, bus safety

• They Say: Women Have Special Instinct for "Cute Babies"

  Researchers in England have reported that women are more sensitive than men to signifiers of cutness in babies that include chubby cheeks, button noses, and big eyes. Apparently women scored more highly than men at selecting a computer-generated composite image that blended the features linked most highly with cuteness over another image, also computer-generated, showing a sad little hypotethical baby lacking said features. Men (and menopausal women, it should be added) apparently saw little difference between the two. The drop-off in women's sensitivity to cuteness when they enter menopause leads the researchers to hypothesize that the cause for any gender difference in cute-fancying is hormonal, rather than societal, in nature. I'm skeptical.  Read More... Posted Jan 21 2009, 04:32 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: mothers, cute, BBC, maternal instinct, cute babies

• Not Cut Out To Be a Mom?

  There's a couple stories (via Jezebel) on one of the big taboos: What happens when you have a baby and suspect you made a terrible, horrible mistake? Is it possible that some women just aren't made for motherhood? Lucy Beresford interviewed many women who had at a minimum, serious ambivalence about being a mother, and says that our inability to talk about this causes serious damage to both mothers and children. For this silent minority, bonding and attachment just don't happen, and the results are tragic for everyone involved. Why do some women find maternal instincts less than instinctual?... Read More... Posted Mar 04 2008, 10:01 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, pregnancy, books, Motherhood, Salon, jezebel, taboo, vicki glemblocki, mistake, maternal instinct, lucy beresford, ambivalence, times of london