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• New Children's Book: Mommy Has A Tattoo

  What a paradigm of ironic narrow-mindedness I was recently when I literally judged a kid’s book by its cover; a book that is, among other things, about how you cannot and should not judge a book by its cover. When the opportunity to review a new children’s book entitled “Mommy Has Tattoos” was extended via email by author and illustrator Phil Padwe to Strollerderby’s own team of heavily inked bloggers, parents and epigrammarians my initial reaction was one of droll sarcasm. I emailed a reply to the group, “I would do the review but I have a Trilogy of children's books coming out titled: Mommy has a Tramp Stamp, Mommy has Ass Antlers and Mommy has a California License Plate. I’m also currently writing two for Dad’s called: Daddy has a Tribal Arm Band and Daddy has a Japanese Symbol on his Calf that Actually Means Asshole and I fear there may be a conflict of interest.” As a Tattooed Dad though I was curious to see how the book conveyed being a tattooed parent in a way that children would relate to and learn something from, so after perusing book’s website I agreed to do the review. Read More... Posted Dec 17 2007, 03:37 PM by makeitadouble with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, children, tattoos, self-expression, book

• When Kids and Taste Collide: Room Decorating

  I grew up in a pink room. Light, insipid pink. I hate pink. Pink walls, pink curtains, pink rug, pink bedspread. Pink, pink, pink. Who invented that awful color and assigned it to girls? Ugh. So when I turned 13 I asked to paint my room, offering to do the work myself. Problem is, the walls had to match the existing curtains, which left me a choice of a deeper pink or the-seventies-are-so-over avocado green. I went with the green. You would have gone with the green, too, wouldn't you? Read More... Posted Dec 03 2007, 07:57 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: kids, decorating, self-expression, growing up, rooms

• Tattoo You, Mama

  I love tattoos. I don't actually have any because I am a great big pansy wussypants, but I think they're creative forms of self-expression. I think I was put off them forever when asking a profusely-decorated guy I liked if it hurt, and he said, "Well, not really… until they hit a chunk of bone and then it hurts like a bitch." Nice. Given that I was in college in the 1990s I am pretty glad I opted out of the tattoo trend, though, since I escaped being one of the 9 million young women (and based on the email discussion of this matter, at least one of our SD guys) with a butterfly on the bikini line/sorority letters on the ankle/dolphin on the hip. And once I hit 30 I just figured the time I could do it without looking like a total idiot was past. Well, according to this New York Times article, I might have another chance to get inked up. Moms are apparently getting their kid's names or symbols that evoke them etched onto their skin in record numbers. Read More... Posted Nov 28 2007, 05:10 PM by Amy Kuras with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: new york times, tattoos, self-expression