Why getting judgey about parenting is ok
This tweet showed up in my reader the other day: Realised something about myself today: I am not non-judgey enough to read Offbeat Families. I don’t even have kids! WTF do I know? But here’s the thing: For me, the key for reading this site isn’t to avoid all judgement, but to recognize when it’s happening.
What can I say to people who tell me I’ll get pregnant if I “just relax?”
“Oh, just CHILL OUT and you’ll be pregnant in no time!” Right? Right? Wrong.
Was it Moctezuma’s revenge? Nope: I was just in labor.
Molly recently published a post on Offbeat Mama about ditching the U.S. health care system in favor of Mexico’s to have her second child — here’s how it went!
A not quite co-sleeping, non-Montessori floor bed for a toddler
We didn’t want to co-sleep but weren’t comfortable with a crib, and VOILA! Our toddler floor bed was born.
My kids are my great kitchen apprentices
Cooking is a total sensory and educational experience — my kids have learned fractions and enhanced math skills with the measuring of ingredients — just by hanging with me in the kitchen.
Are parents happy?
In what seems like a surprising or at least dishonest turn, parents self-report seems to be that they are happy … these studies measured happiness moment-to-moment, a definition that makes sense in a culture that tends to be about the moment-to-moment with focus on products that provide quick fixes and instant pleasures.
What kind of hiking carrier should we use for our infant?
Rachael and her partner love hiking but have NO CLUE what to pack their baby in while they’re doing so. What do you use?
Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about Child-Free men?
“For all the stories written by and for women on this issue — and there are markedly few — men are more likely to be absent from the public dialogue about intentional childlessness. It isn’t as if they don’t exist, so why aren’t men’s stories also being heard?”