Articles from July 2010
Posted by Martha on July 26, 2010
In the past two years of being a parent, I’ve grown abnormally fond of the style of Attachment Parenting. Because it is my nature to delve deeply into the roots of anything I am enamored with, I have decided to do a series on Attachment Theory, the roots of Attachment Parenting. There are lots of [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Books, Fatherhood, Motherhood, Parenting
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Tags: Attachment Parenting, Attachment Theory, Books, John Bowlby
Posted by Martha on July 23, 2010
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Categories: Uncategorized
Posted by Martha on July 22, 2010
Even though I’ve made plenty of snarky remarks about my ex-husband on here, he introduced me to some good things too. One was punk music. And another was the Tao Te Ching. He didn’t read the Tao itself, but had a copy of the Tao of Pooh, which is how I learned about the real [...]
Categories: Books, Motherhood, Parenting, Taoism
| Tags: Books, Motherhood, Parenting
Posted by Martha on July 20, 2010
Years ago if you had told me that I would compare quitting smoking with my toddler’s sleep cycle I would have told you to shut the fuck up. No. Seriously, that’s probably exactly what I would have said. Not because it’s a far-fetched comparison, but because up until I got pregnant, the idea that I [...]
Categories: Motherhood, Parenting
| Tags: Annika, Attachment Parenting, Motherhood, Parenting
Posted by Martha on July 14, 2010
Even though I’ve tried over and over to get Annika to listen to various, kid appropriate, adult music, she will only listen to kid music. Specifically, Sesame Street sound recordings. Well, that and a couple of other random kid music that I’ve had since she was an infant. Right now her favorite is the Sesame [...]
Categories: Fatherhood, Motherhood, Parenting, Review
| Tags: Attachment Parenting, Motherhood, Parenting
Posted by Martha on July 13, 2010
When I separated from my, now, ex-husband 10 years ago, it sent me into a spiraling world of depression that would last for about three years. At the time I didn’t realize it. Logically, I was happy to be free from this awful, debilitating marriage to a narcissistic, immature, insecure, and irresponsible man. But even [...]
Categories: Addiction, Alcoholism, Motherhood, Parenting
| Tags: Attachment Parenting, Happiness, Motherhood, Parenting
Posted by Martha on July 8, 2010
When I was a kid, I never liked my hair. It was fine and wavy, so it curled funny, but it wasn’t curly. I didn’t have thick, straight hair. I didn’t have curly hair. It was just wavy and weird. I always wanted thick, straight hair. OR, curly hair. What I had was in between. [...]
Categories: Bi-racial, Fatherhood, Motherhood, Parenting, Race, Racism
| Tags: Annika, Bi-racial, Inter-racial, Motherhood, Multi-racial, Parenting, Race, Racism, Stereotypes
Posted by Martha on July 5, 2010
I’ve been waiting in anticipation for opportunities to talk to Annika about race, as recommended in NurtureShock. (I know, I know, if I love it so much I should just marry the damn book.) Last week an opportunity presented itself that just screamed for a conversation. I was pretty excited about it since the other [...]
Categories: Bi-racial, Books, Fatherhood, Motherhood, Parenting, Race
| Tags: Bi-racial, Books, Inter-racial, Motherhood, Multi-racial, Parenting, Race, Racism
Posted by Martha on July 1, 2010
Since becoming a parent, I’ve read a lot of parenting books. When the babies are little, the books are filled with lots of fluff and sweet talk. They also like to give you lots of advice without backing it up with any real facts or science. During the newborn phases, most parents probably don’t even [...]
Categories: Books, Fatherhood, Motherhood, Parenting
| Tags: Books, Parenting
