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13 May 2013 by not a wild hera
Thanks to Kiwi Families editor (and regular here) Rochelle, who spoke about Mother’s Day on Radio Live yesterday, and Lawrence’s …
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Category: consumerism, culture, kids, language, motherhood
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Tags: Anna Jarvis, apostrophes, Kiwi Families, Mothers' Day, National Geographic
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11 May 2013 by not a wild hera
Mothers’ Day: a day for great ambivalence. (And yeah, that’s where I put the apostrophe, as the best of the …
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Category: church, community, consumerism, culture, grief, home, infertility, kids, motherhood, music, pastor, rant, video
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Tags: Mothers' Day
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10 May 2013 by not a wild hera
I was thinking about our discussions on beauty and remembered this awesome bathroom mirror: I sometimes wonder what it would …
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Category: beauty myth, body image, culture, emotional well-being, feminism, hilarity
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Tags: mirrors
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8 May 2013 by not a wild hera
Thanks to A Mighty Girl’s Facebook feed for this contribution to the saga of retailers insisting on labelling toys for …
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Category: boys and girls, consumerism, feminism, hilarity, kids, marketing, rant, social media, toys
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Tags: A Mighty Girl, Boots, toy shops
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8 May 2013 by not a wild hera
Thanks to friends and RSS feeds, I came across a few different articles over the weekend that all stayed with …
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Category: babies, books, co-sleeping, conflict of parenting philosophy, culture, kids, media, motherhood, parenting, teenagers, well-being
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Tags: CIO, controlled crying, ethnopaediatrics, Jay Griffiths, Kith, Meredith Small, Our Babies, Ourselves, Patchwork Parenting Manifesto, sleep training
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28 April 2013 by not a wild hera
Theology is only real when we live it. So chapter 6 of Not Only a Father tries to suggest ways …
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Category: Bible, church, communication, culture, feminism, gendered language, home, language, motherhood, music, spirituality, working mothers
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Tags: God, Guest posts, Jesus, language for God, Matthew, Moses, Not Only a Father, Numbers, providence, Psalms, Tim Bulkeley
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19 April 2013 by not a wild hera
‘The Second Shift’ has persisted through the several decades that women have been working outside the home in large numbers. …
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Category: beauty myth, body image, books, culture, emotional well-being, feminism, language, media, partners, rant, sexism, well-being, working mothers
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Tags: Anne Machung, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Jenny Armstrong, Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth, The Second Shift, The Third Shift
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18 April 2013 by not a wild hera
I first encountered Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty a few years ago with this striking video showing the (tenuous) relationship …
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Category: body image, communication, consumerism, emotional well-being, feminism, media, social media, well-being
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Tags: advertising, Annie Leonard, Campaign for Real Beauty, Dove, The Story of Stuff, Unilever
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15 April 2013 by not a wild hera
Co-sleeping becomes a whole new thing when your baby gets mobile. I was so astounded by observing the phenomenon of …
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Category: attachment parenting, co-sleeping, culture, home, motherhood, parenting, prayer, science, toddlers, travel, well-being
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Tags: Dr Sears, Lulastic, Montessori toddler bed, naps, postnatal depression, super-king bed
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13 April 2013 by not a wild hera
Welcome back to our guest poster Dr Tim Bulkeley, and welcome, readers, to perhaps the most controversial bit of this series (see …
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Category: Bible, communication, culture, fatherhood, feminism, gendered language, language, motherhood, spirituality
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Tags: God, John, John Pilch, language for God, Luke, Mark, Matthew, Not Only a Father, Tim Bulkeley, Trinity
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