My post about mothers who continuously bear children to have a daughter — or, even medically select their child’s gender —  made me sympathetic to this woman featured in Cary Tenis’ column in Salon today. Basically, this lesbian was “disowned” by her fundamentalist Christian family and she wanted Tenis’ input as to whether she should […] Continue reading →

Here’s a funny piece of celebrity gossip: Jessica Simpson, the terrible ballad singer and starlet of the Dukes of Hazard movie, turned down the opportunity to meet our beloved president. The Republicans are fuming. Simpson was at a Capitol Hill news conference today to lend her support to “Operation Smile,” a group that funds plastic […] Continue reading →

Today’s Berkeley Parents Network newsletter had a sweet item about mothers and sons. Apparently, an advice-seeker worried aloud whether she would have a close relationship with her son since he is not a girl. For those of you who are like me and don’t care what gender your baby is, you’d be surprised what a […] Continue reading →

A recent column on MSN.com touched a hot-button issue here in Berkeley: With so many schools to choose from, which is better — public or private school? While the column walks through various scenerios, the writer clearly favors private school, offering it as an option each and every time anything goes wrong in a public […] Continue reading →

Amy’s disciplining dilemma reminded me of one of my posts on our old site about the latest studies on guilt-ridden mommy topics like spanking, TV watching and Day Care. Here is that post with some minor updates: Letting your kids watch TV for three or more hours a day hurts school performance. But well-chosen and […] Continue reading →

Now that I am in college for the second time, working on a Bachelor’s degree in Mandarin Chinese — si, I am a loca! — I am so grateful I am not poor. When I earned my first degree at Boston University seven years ago, I was broke and thank goodness, Bill Clinton was president. […] Continue reading →

In a review of an anthology aptly named “Mommy Wars: Stay-At-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families” (2006, Random House), Newsweek brought up a good point in that all mothers — from all walks of life — feel ambivalence about one major decision: Whether or not to stay home. […] Continue reading →

As I was perusing SFGate.com to find out why train service was temporarly cancelled today — couldn’t get to school! — I came across this interesting item to accompany my post below: Apparently, there is a record number of billionaires — bringing that total up to 793 from 691 last year, according to Forbes Magazine. […] Continue reading →

I commented to Amy today that I was feeling particularly drab about politics and the direction of our country. Perhaps, it’s all the news about banning abortion and rightwingers’ anger over the lack of men’s rights. (See Erika’s post below.) Then I got sucked into this thread on the ultimate right-wing rag, the Wall Street […] Continue reading →

While Erika has blogged about mothers who tote $300 diaper bags and walk their infants in $750-strollers, BloggingBaby hilariously compiled a “top six” list of more over-the-top “baby bling”. How about a $185-Spongebob Squarepants juice box holder? A $47,000-Cinderella bed by Coach? Don’t have the cash for such extravagance? No problem. A new company, aptly […] Continue reading →