When should kids get cell phone? More importantly, when should kids have access to a smart phone? This is one of the issues that plague, divide, and keep parents up at night. We’ve convinced ourselves that cell phones are a necessity. In some ways they are since pay phones are a rarity these days. If…
I love Pinterest for all the pretty things it brings into my life. But I also find it frustrating for all the wrong things it brings. For instance, the trend it has to make things entirely harder than they need to be. One of these is parenting. Pins on parenting tend to make it overwhelming…
At a North Carolina elementary school, a young boy is bullied for bringing a My Little Pony backpack. The solution? School officials ban the backpack. And the internet goes nuts! The boy and his mother were on the news. The mother decided to home school. The latest news is that the school is re-thinking their…
I read an article headlined Stop Calling Assertive Women Bitches. It had nothing to do with women. Instead it was about the woman’s daughter who’s a free-spirit of such magnitude that people on the street comment on her behavior, describing her in unflattering terms. The mother takes offense, defending her daughter’s behavior saying she’s prepping…
Poor Rachel Canning didn’t like the rules at her parents house. So she moved out. Now she’s suing them for her college tuition to be paid in full. You know, because she’s a spoiled ass American Princess! [source] I don’t even know where to begin… Let’s start with the idea that parents owe their children…
Last week an article went around about a nine year old girl who was being bullied about her weight at school. Her peers would yell “how do you fit into pants?” and other charming things. The solution? She would post her before photos on a website and start dieting and working out to become worthy…
I got a snippy comment about the posts I make about race here and on Facebook. The commenter wanted to know why I am so concerned about black people when I am white. First of all, I care about all people. I don’t need to be concerned about a person’s skin color to want them…
Last week I didn’t feel well and must have watched more television than usual because I tweeted about a lot of commercials. Mostly that I hated them. I even managed to get one changed. Well, I’m sure it was me and the other million people that also tweeted the company about the bad bad commercial.…
In conjunction with the Body Positive Parenting group on Facebook, I wanted to start a series of Body Positive Parenting pieces. And what better place to start than at the very beginning of what being Body Positive is all about? For me, some the hardest parts of Body Positive Parenting have been dealing with outside…
What is it with those Palin chicks? Seriously? Every time something remotely controversial happens, Sarah and Bristol are out there giving us their opinions. Some might like hearing Sarah’s opinion since she is an adult with a checkered, half-assed political career. But what has Bristol done? Single mom on a dance contest? Cancelled reality star?…