Breastfeeding: How does this affect your relationship? (Pt I)
When James Vincent's wife, Vicky, decided to breastfeed their third child, he was nothing but supportive. Their older children had the benefit of their mother's milk and he wanted the same for their...
View ArticleBreastfeeding moms in uniform stir controversy
A picture taken of two moms breastfeeding in military uniforms has stirred up controversy. Yahoo! reports the photo is part of a breastfeeding awareness campaign by Mom2Mom of Fairchild Air Force Base...
View ArticleJamie Lynne Grumet, TIME's Breastfeeding Covergirl, Can't Stop Posing for...
pathwaystofamilywellness.orgWe love breastfeeding. We especially loved breastfeeding when we were small, bald and toothless. It's a beautiful thing, and no woman should ever be told when or where she...
View ArticleHoward University psychology professor speaks about raising African-American...
The weekend before Easter, I drove six hours to see my 23-year-old son sing in downtown Washington with fellow members of a multi-cultural church choir, all wearing hoodies. The hoodies were in honor...
View ArticleKeep your homework and give me back my child
I have recently joined a growing body of parents taking a stand against a mainstay of the little red schoolhouse: Homework. I hate it....
View ArticleTime Breastfeeding Mom and Other Extreme 'Attachment Parenters'
Does Jamie Lynn Grumet, the extreme breastfeeding mom of two on the Time magazines' cover have a life? Any life outside of being a milk machine for her sons, four and five? Come on. Most normal,...
View ArticleParental Pride or Indecent Exposure: Photos of military women breastfeeding...
A photo of two servicewomen breastfeeding in uniform has put the military at the center of an age-old debate. The picture was released as part of a campaign to promote breastfeeding by Mom2Mom, a...
View ArticleHow old is too old? Time's breastfeeding cover reignites parenting debate
IT'S a cover designed to provoke fierce debate. Even those unaware of the child-rearing philosophy behind it could be guaranteed to have an opinion about what 26-year-old mother Jamie Lynne Grumet was...
View ArticleModern kids' lament: Must we still keep our elbows off the table? - Wire...
When I was growing up in the gentile, Bible-Belt South, using manners at the dinner table was like not closing your eyes when you were praying. It was downright sinful. Now I am the mother of a...
View ArticleWaiting for snow days
When it's January and you're between the ages of 6 and 18 and you've ever spotted so much as a snowflake outside your window, you hold out hope on wintry nights that someone will wake you in the...
View ArticleTime's Breastfeeding Cover Leaves Out Adopted Ethopian Child
Jamie Lynne Grumet, American’s best-known Lululemon Madonna, admits that breastfeeding her nearly 4-year-old son, Aram, on the cover of this week’s Time, was meant to “cause a stir.” In her appearance...
View ArticleSet ground rules so they don't get grounded
Right about the time you think you've got this teen-ager thing figured out, along come the cops to remind you that you don't. Such was the case the night of our sophomore son's big homecoming dance....
View ArticleSpeeding through high school a likely way to crash
School was just letting out when we heard the sirens. Cell phones and Facebook lit up, and within minutes everybody in our small town knew three 11th-grade girls had crashed their car in a...
View ArticleMilitary Moms Have Been Confused By Breastfeeding Policy for Years
Many servicewomen say that a lack of policy for breastfeeding in uniform leads to confusion and dissent The backlash to a staged photo of two servicewomen breastfeeding in uniform includes remarks...
View ArticleBreastfeeding older children, at what age should it stop
Breastfeeding is a normal thing for mothers to do with their children. Jamie Grumet on Attachment Parenting It has amazing health benefits, breast milk has more nutrients than formula, helps build up...
View ArticleHolidays: Typhoid fever? Is that what it takes to slow a family down?
'Twas the weekend before Thanksgiving, and our already busy family was on multi-tasking high alert as we prepared to pack up and drive 1,500 miles over the river and through the wood. Christmas...
View ArticleThe comedic, fleeting relief of a 14-year-old boy
A lot of people think they have to pay to be entertained. When you're the mother of a 14-year-old boy, you know entertainment is as close as the living room couch where the aforementioned is agonizing...
View ArticleThe teenager's messy room: It takes a village
While our 15-year-old son was away at summer camp, his father and I managed to peaceably co-clean and de-clutter his personal storage bin, otherwise known as his bedroom. This is surprising,...
View ArticleHere's your little bundle of joy oh, and a rubber bladder for later
Funny, when she was handing out the prenatal vitamins and the bubblegum cigars 23 years ago, my gynecologist didn't mention I might also one day need a pessary. I don't like the sound of the word,...
View ArticleHomecoming and the ninth-grade boy
Just because he isn't taking a girl to homecoming doesn't mean the newbie high school boy has it easy. Consider the boutonniere....
View ArticleWoman behind photos of military moms breastfeeding in their uniforms is...
The woman behind the controversial photographs of military mothers breastfeeding in their uniforms has been fired from her civilian job as an X-ray technician, while the women who posed up have been...
View ArticleWhen Mom's weird vegetables take over the refrigerator
My son came home from soccer and as always, went straight for the refrigerator. "Ugh, Mom," he moaned as he peered inside....
View ArticleAfter Aurora, 'Dark Knight Rises' presents perfect storm of desensitization
The collective response to the mass shooting at a July 20 premier showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" was not wholly unexpected. Politicians and commentators clamored for stricter gun controls,...
View ArticleFlak for military moms nursing in uniform, Time Magazine flashback
Breastfeeding seems to be an increasingly controversial topic. Earlier in May, mother Jamie Lynn Grumet found herself in the middle of media frenzy when she posed with her son while nursing him during...
View ArticleMilitary slams breastfeeding moms who posed in uniform while nursing their...
The military mothers who posed for photographs while breastfeeding in their uniform were out of line, the Washington Air National Guard said on Saturday. Terran Echegoyen-McCabe and Christina Luna are...
View ArticleProud military wife defends her photograph of servicewomen breastfeeding in...
A photograph of servicewomen breastfeeding in public while wearing uniform has ignited a global debate. The picture shows two mothers, Terran Echegoyen-McCabe and Christina Luna, both in active...
View ArticleWant your child off the screens? Try turning off yours
I look over at my teenage son, who's had his hour of screen time for the day. I tell him it's time to shut off his laptop game and start his math homework. I tell him once. I tell him twice. Finally,...
View ArticleHappy Valentine's Day: Wake up, honey. I think we made it
When my husband and I married 25 years ago, he was an overwrought graduate student. I was a stressed-out newspaper reporter. Both of us came from painfully broken homes. Neither of us knew how to fix...
View ArticleSurviving Candy Land
I know a dirty little secret about mothers. It involves Candy Land. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Debra-Lynn-Hook-Bringing-Up-Mommy/195642263780710.) http://debralynn-bloopbloopotter.blogspot.com/ We...
View ArticleBringing up Mommy: A summer reunion to remember
The split between my mother and father came like a boulder off the South Carolina mountains when I was 14, splintering the road ahead without warning. My three sisters and I went with my mother, to...
View ArticleExactly who do they think Secret Santa is anyway?
We are in the final countdown to Christmas,which means I'm almost done conjuring up gift ideas for 11 in-laws, eight out-of-towners and the mailman. Which means my ninth-grade son suddenly remembers...
View ArticleOn teen-agers and toilet paper
During 10 years of life with teen-agers, I've learned a few things. I've learned that teen-aged boys can be every bit as ditzy as teen-aged girls. That a teen-ager's concept of how long it takes to do...
View ArticleBringing up Mommy
For nine years, I have taken a pre-Mother's Day mom-cation away from home and everybody in it. The first year was 2004. My children were 6, 10 and 14. I left for six days, but not before compiling...
View ArticleBringing up Mommy: Top 10 quotes about Time's breast-feeding toddler cover
Not since Demi Moore appeared nude and pregnant on a1991 cover of "Vanity Fair" has an image of an American mother so divided, enraged, delighted, captivated and horrified the masses. And on Mother's...
View ArticleBringing up Mommy: Up against the breastfeeding ceiling
Breastfeeding advocates were still deflecting outrage over Time magazine's recent photo of a nursing toddler, when the "Ew, yukky, it's breast milk!" crowd started in again. The latest eruption...
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