Cross-posted at MotherTalkers
by Stacey
About a week ago I went to hear a lecture on talking to kids about sex by Amy Lang, a parent educator in Seattle. I really was just tagging along with a friend and hadn’t given much thought to the topic since my kids are only four and one-year old.
Well, I got […]

by Stacey
The EcoMom has arrived. Instead of worrying over gleaming floors and sparkling dishes, the NY Times reported earlier this week that moms these days are obsessed on installing compact fluorescent light bulbs, buying in bulk and using “smart” power strips that shut off electricity to the espresso machine, microwave, X-Box, VCR, coffee grinder, television […]

Tom Schierlitz for The New York Times
by Stacey
How important is play? According this too-long article in last Sunday’s NY Times magazine, this question is causing some anxiety among parents and educators and has become the topic of a burgeoning field of scientific research.
Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing […]

by Stacey
My Fussbucket partner Kristin recently watched Al Gore’s movie on global warming called “An Inconvenient Truth.” Since then this whole business about the frightening state of the environment has been bugging her. Makes me think they were on to something with the title of the movie.
She’s decided she wants to start a Green Parenting […]

by Stacey
Last week I read numerous blog posts skewering Bill Maher for criticizing women who breastfeed their babies in public. On his show Real Time with Bill Maher, he said the following:
Look, there’s no principle at work here other than being too lazy to either plan ahead or cover up. It’s not fighting for a […]

by kristin
when i was a little kid, i spent a lot of time outside with my friends. unsupervised. we made witches’ potions out of dirt and juniper berries, jumped out of trees and roamed the woods and canyons near our house. i walked to the bus stop a mile away from home and […]