Saturday Morning Parenting Diary
Good morning fellow moms, dads and caregivers! I hope you are well this morning. I am enjoying my new car -- a red Mazda 5. Thank you to those of you who suggested it! It offers more space than our...
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What's up all? My family is in the thick of the holiday season, which means back-to-back birthday parties for kids with November and December birthdays plus holiday parties. I am already burned out and...
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Good morning fellow moms, dads and caregivers! How are you this morning? I just got back from a trip to Orange County to visit my best friend and her family. What a lovely Thanksgiving. Here are some...
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What's up? We talked about our favorite Christmas movies. Believe it or not, there was an actual story in the press about children who have had their tongues stuck on poles a la A Christmas Story.
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Good morning fellow moms, dads and caregivers! How are you this morning? I am fried. I managed to fill out and send out approximately 80 holiday cards, buy, wrap and mail out gifts this week. On the...
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Good morning fellow moms, dads and caregivers! After almost two weeks in Central America and a weekend in Orange County for a baby shower, I am finally back with your weekly parenting news update. I...
View ArticleThoughts on Health Care
Cross-posted at MotherTalkers. This is an historical moment that I can't get out of my head so my apologies in advance for writing, yet, another piece on healthcare reform. This is an issue near and...
View ArticleArizona's New Immigration Law and the "92 Percent Situation"
Hi all! As you know I have a progressive parenting blog called MotherTalkers.com and consult for a family advocacy group called MomsRising.org. Recently, my supervisor at MomsRising, Mary Olivella, and...
View ArticleAn Unimaginable Choice
In all the fiery discussion about Arizona's law and "illegal" immigrants, there is one voice missing: that of the immigrants themselves. At MomsRising, we have launched a blog carnival with many of...
View ArticleBest Parents Caucus Ever!
What is the pay disparity between a single mother and a man? What percentage of fathers are primary caregivers? Think you know the answers to these questions and more, then come to this year's Netroots...
View ArticleOn Parents Caucus, Godiva Chocolates and More
An iTunes gift card...a Target gift card...Godiva chocolates...and more. Worth playing for? Then please do come to this year's Netroots Nation Parents Caucus, which will be held this Friday at 10:30...
View ArticleWhat Latinos Are Saying At Netroots Nation
I attended a lively, well-attended and diverse -- meaning age, Latino background and allies -- Latino Caucus at the Netroots Nation Convention in Las Vegas today. The caucus was headed by Nicole...
View ArticleBlogging the Parents and Education Caucuses at NN
Here are some nuggets from Netroots Nation: the Parents Caucus was well-attended with between 30 and 35 people. Afterwards I talked with our "San Diego Dem," and we agreed that this was one of the...
View ArticleRacial Disparity in School Suspensions
Cross-posted at my blog MotherTalkers. Because the achievement gap is a theme I am passionate about and often pops up here, I thought I would highlight a quick story on the racial disparity in school...
View ArticleCoffee Party Convention Day 1
Cross-posted at MotherTalkers with pictures, which I took with my iPhone but can't figure out how to post here. LOUISVILLE, KY -- First, I want to say how surprised I was by Louisville. I have never...
View ArticleCoffee Party Convention Day 2
Cross-posted at MotherTalkers with pictures. I couldn't figure out how to post the pictures here. LOUISVILLE, KY -- Before I delve into day two, I have some leftover pics and stories from the previous...
View ArticleCoffee Party Convention Day 3
This is the final installment of a four-part series on the Coffee Party Convention this past weekend. To read the previous articles, with lots of pictures, check out Day 1, Day 2, and Day 2...
View ArticleAbout the Education Wars...
Cross-posted at my blog MotherTalkers. With the release of Waiting for Superman, which was made by the same filmmaker behind An Inconvenient Truth, literally, everyone is talking about the state of our...
View ArticleWhy Do Moms DREAM?
Cross-posted at the Huffington Post and my blog MotherTalkers. Odds are, if you are a mom, you're one of the 72 percent of women in the United States who support the DREAM Act. But we want to know why.
View ArticleHow Your Blogging Can Help Families This Thanksgiving
On November 30, federal unemployment insurance is set to expire. Yet millions of families are relying on extended federal unemployment insurance to stay afloat financially. To keep the spotlight on the...
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