The Washington Post columnist Carolyn Hax wrote this article and I love it. Stay at home moms, do you get tired of explaining why you have the “nerve” to be tired? Stress no more and show the moron uneducated accuser Hax’s response.
Tagged: Articles, Carolyn Hax, reviews, Stay at home moms, The Washington Post
Until modern science proves that the plastic used to make car seats disintegrates I will not believe in car seat expiration dates. I do believe companies will exploit a parent’s fear for money. My reasoning? Imagine you are in need of a car seat and your sister gives you the one she used for her son, who at the age of six has now outgrown it. Now you have a free car seat. The car seat manufacturer made money for only one child’s use. By creating expiration dates a car seat will only be used by one child. This puts more money in the company’s pocket. This also throws thousands of ‘unusable’ chunks of plastic into landfills. In my opinion destroying the Earth is…
Tagged: booster seats, Car seats, Facebook, Freecycle, Hand-me-downs, Other parents, Strangers
Despite my doctor telling me I was too young at twenty-one, I became pregnant. For nine months I was told by family, friends, neighbours, co-workers, the neighbour’s dog; that I was too small, what to eat, how to dress, sleep and walk. After the birth of my daughter – Shirley Temple with a Tazmanian Devil energy and inherited Italian stubbornness- I was told she was too small, too big, what to feed her, etc. It baffled me why people would pick on both my hormone crazy pregnant and post-natal selves; a mixture of poking at a bear and kicking a puppy. It soon came to my attention all parents faced such abuse. Be it their age, sex, race, religion, class or clique. Tough skins…
