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by May Saubier posted in Mom Stories I just got back from a week long media blackout in the Adirondack Mountains.  No television and spotty cell phone and Wi-Fi.  I forgot all about the news for several days and spent time with my family. I’ll take this view over politics any day.   But I haven’t forgotten a news [...]

by May Saubier posted in Mom Stories I just got back from a week long media blackout in the Adirondack Mountains.  No television and spotty cell phone and Wi-Fi.  I forgot all about the news for several days and spent time with my family. I’ll take this view over politics any day.   But I haven’t forgotten a news [...]

by Joyce Slaton posted in Mom Stories For better or for worse, after you have a child, you’re much more susceptible to certain elements of horror. Recognizing an aspect of yourself in a horror movie parent is unsettling. Even worse, is the sight of a child, even a fictional one, in pain or distress. Evil [...]

by Joyce Slaton posted in Mom Stories The money graf of Jezebel’s story “History Reveals People Have Always Given Moms Shit” gets it right. This short tour of some of the salient points of historian Angela Davis’ new book Modern Motherhood: Women and Family in England surveys 70 years of parenting manuals and comes up [...]