God, Kids and Parents: My Eighty-Two Cents
In case you missed the biggest news of the (/my) blogosphere last week, I have a guest post up at ... Continue reading
View ArticleTreating Children as Beloved Foreigners
Lucy from Lulastic and the Hippy Shake has been reading Parenting for Social Change by Teresa Brett and snipping quotes ... Continue reading
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day: 8 (Easy and Hard) Ways to Make Life Better for Women
The wonderful Lucy is hosting an International Women’s Day link-up at Lulastic and the Hippyshake, so head over there for ... Continue reading
View Article6 Ways Kids Can Change the World [Blog Action Day]
Even if you’re little you can do a lot, you Mustn’t let a little thing like ‘little’ stop you ... Continue reading
View Article47 Christmas Gifts that can Change the World
How can something as (potentially) shallow as Christmas shopping be a great way to make a difference in the world? Easy :) If we aspire to living a life where our actions reflect our values, then how...
View ArticleJamie Oliver and I Are Not on the Same Parenting Page
It seems that Jamie Oliver – cheeky television chef with the ‘beestung lips’ and the Essex accent – and I aren’t on the same page when it comes to our attitude to children. Jamie Oliver, 2014, image by...
View ArticleThe Sacrament of Breastfeeding #6: Mastitis and the Trinity
Welcome! This is a reworking of an earlier post, from March 2013 (just so I’m not soliciting undue sympathy: I’m fine now!). Being a woman equals being in community. The same might feel true for men...
View Article‘Colours are for Everyone’ + 38 More Phrases for Feminist Parenting
A little visitor came to our house for the first time recently. This was the conversation between the visitor and my four-year-old son, SBJ: Visitor: Whose bike is that? SBJ: Mine! V: It can’t be...
View ArticleFabulous Children’s Picture Books with Diverse Representation
Have you ever noticed that all the animals in the popular children’s lift-the-flap book Dear Zoo are male? Every single one. It’s not an isolated example. Looking at almost 6,000 children’s books...
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