Not sure if you have been publicly scolded by strangers for your parenting tactics, but I could relate to writer Katy Read’s recent essay in Brain, Child Magazine, “Scoldings from Strangers.” Read hilariously recounted a number of incidents, in which well-meaning strangers scolded her for her two sons’ misdeeds. Incidents such as running around a […] Continue reading →

Sorry for the delayed update. Erika and I had a much important Oakland A’s game to attend. Even though we left the stadium during the sixth inning — the kids were getting cranky  — we hear our boys won in an amazing comeback in the bottom of the ninth. Woo-hoo! Okay now for the serious […] Continue reading →

Amy and I will be headed down to San Jose today for the BlogHer Conference, meeting some of the many female bloggers out there and introducing them to MotherTalkers. When we started MotherTalkers back in November we had no idea we would create the space for such a supportive and dynamic community, and find blogging […] Continue reading →

Salon ran an interesting thread in its Broadsheet section a couple days ago on whether the growth of stay-at-home dads would incite a “daddy war.” (Only a chick would think of this, eh?) Some of the SAHDs in that thread echoed what this guy told the San Francisco Chronicle recently: “My argument at the time […] Continue reading →

Being the sole shopping parent in a vegetarian household, I have test-driven through many supermarkets. When we first moved to San Francisco in 1999, I shopped at the natural bulk food store, Rainbow Grocery, which I remember enjoying — and missing. After we crossed the Bay Bridge a year later, I made my purchases at […] Continue reading →

I was annoyed by People magazine’s story on Christie Brinkley’s impending divorce from architect Peter Cook. The magazine speculated that he cheated on her with a teenager because he was tired of being known as “Mr. Christie Brinkley:” Why would Cook, 47, a successful architect who has built luxury homes for heiress Anne Hearst, entertainment […] Continue reading →

The New Yorker ran a story about the mysterious causes for preeclampsia, a disorder that causes high blood pressure and even death in pregnant women, and the scrambling around for a treatment. One doctor in particular, Ananth Karumanchi, a 31-year-old kidney special at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, has been looking for a […] Continue reading →

Editor’s Note: Okay, so it’s not in my head that marriage is all over the news. Congress just alloted $750 million — all that money that we have, right? — to promote marriage among low-income people and more involvement from fathers. First of all, it’s sad that you have to spend millions to prod men […] Continue reading →

If you aren’t already sick of looking at naked mommy photos, here is another one in New York Magazine. Apparently, the picture is for an article on UrbanBaby, a website of New York mothers. I thought the photo of the pregnant tired city mom with a toddler hanging off her boob was rather artistic — […] Continue reading →

Our “Emily T” wrote a thought-provoking piece for her blog, Doing It All Again (it’s in our blogroll), about how the “mommy wars” are the latest misogynist acts in an age of conservative parenting. Here is an excerpt of how little parenting has changed from previous conservative generations, which may make for interesting discussion: The […] Continue reading →