May 2012
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Donovan: I was running back so I was very fast!
Me: Yes, you are a very fast little boy.
D: No, I’m a very fast BIG boy!
Me: you’re right you’re a BIG boy.
D: [laughing] Ha, you got the words wrong.
Four year olds can be such smartasses. ; )
Mammalingo: 14 Things I Think New Parents Should... →
mammalingo:
The more time and effort put into decorating a nursery, the more likely that the baby will sleep in your room.
Things that don’t wake a sleeping newborn: loud noises and bright lights. Things that do wake a sleeping newborn: sitting down to eat dinner.
Maybe they’ll say it’s the eyes. Maybe…
Love. This.
So we’re having an open house today (the house we’re renting is for sale) and I just took down the pictures of our kids off the walls bc it kinda creeps me out for strangers to see them while walking through our house.
Of course, I still have no problem posting pics of my kids for strangers on the internet to see.
I didn’t say it was rational…
The Daddy Complex: Hey, Moms! Don't Fight Each... →
thedaddycomplex:
Looks like some people out there second my emotion. Over at Moms In Maine, blogger Michelle makes a similar argument I did about how there really is no War on Moms, but she targets the issue of maternity leave and backs it up with FACTS! Here’s a snippet…
These petty wars, which pin Mom…
Paid maternity leave for all or the terrorists win. #heckyeah
I really need feminism
whoneedsfeminism:
…because on my school’s morning news show, it shouldn’t be all right for a guy to tell me to show more cleavage. It shouldn’t be amusing when he does. It shouldn’t be bitchy when I refuse. It shouldn’t have gone unacknowledged by the supervisor who heard the whole thing. We’re in a high school and I’m not even a legal adult.
April 2012
11 posts
Only if You've Read The Fault in Our Stars...
fishingboatproceeds:
I have updated the tumblr devoted to your questions, and my answers, about The Fault in Our Stars. I will try to answer a few more questions tonight. There are lots of spoilers. Don’t click that link if you haven’t read the book. Seriously. Okay, thanks.
Reading some of these Q&A’s makes me love the book even more.
whoneedsfeminism:
I need feminism because even in my incredibly progressive and open minded high school, parenting class has been nicknamed ‘mom’s class’ by both male and female students.
Mammalingo: The 13 Most Useless College Majors (As... →
newsweek:
1. Fine Arts
2. Drama and Theatre Arts
3. Film, Video, and Photographic Arts
4. Commercial Art and Graphic Design
5. Architecture
6. Philosophy and Religious Studies
7. English Literature and Language
8. Journalism
9. Anthropology and Archeology
Frankly, I’m surprised psychology didn’t make it on this list….
Am I the mother of a 15 month old or the owner of...
mammalingo:
Some things I said yesterday:
“Sit.”
“Do you want to go on a walk? Walk?!”
“Let’s go for a ride!”
“Eat. Time to eat!”
“Sit. Sit down. Sit.”
And he chews on my stuff and would shit on the carpet if he weren’t wearing a diaper.
TRUTH!
“As a society, we encourage girls and women to be emotionally accessible, and in...”
– Tori Amos (via dr-clear-heels)
Motherlode Book Club: Elisabeth Badinter's The... →
thedaddycomplex:
deborahsiegel:
Must read.
Wow, you guys. Who ever thought motherhood would become such a hot button issue? And in politics, no less. And yet Elisabeth Badinter’s book The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women provides more fodder for the debate.
I’m not going to get into my normal complaint about how dads aren’t represented here because stay-at-home...
March 2012
35 posts
John Green's tumblr: I Saw The Hunger Games Last... →
fishingboatproceeds:
I’m late, but in my defense I was on planes much of the last five days.
So a quick prefatory comment: I’m quoted on the back of The Hunger Games for nice things I said about the first book in the New York Times Book Review when it came out, so obviously I like the book. Back then, I remember…
Just finished reading this book this morning (thanks to Quinn not wanting...
John Green's tumblr: How to Get Your Book Banned... →
fishingboatproceeds:
Step 1: Write about people who aren’t white.
Step 2: THERE IS NO STEP TWO.
You will very rarely see me curse, tumblypoos, but…but…I mean, what the fuck? How is this even possible? This reads like an Onion article.
To be clear, it is now ILLEGAL to teach de la Pena’s novel (which I’ve read…
Are you fucking kidding me?
John Green's tumblr: Why Libraries Are Different... →
fishingboatproceeds:
Yesterday on twitter, I expressed annoyance with the hundreds of people who send me emails or tumblr messages or whatever to let me know that they illegally downloaded one of my books, as if they expect me to reply with my hearty congratulations that they are technologically sophisticated enough…
