Dear Members of the House Who Voted for Stupak-Pitts, - MOMocrats™
h/t Susan KT. This is totally amazing. (And the stuffed toy is just... something.)Dear Members of the House Who Voted for Stupak-Pitts, - MOMocrats™:Thank you for taking the time to

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The backlash against over-parenting - TIME
The backlash against over-parenting - TIMEThe insanity crept up on us slowly; we just wanted what was best for our kids. We bought macrobiotic cupcakes and hypoallergenic socks, hired tutors to correct a 5-year-old's "pencil-holding deficiency," hooked up broadband connections in the treehouse but took down the swing set after the second skinned knee. We hovered over every school, playground and practice field — "helicopter parents," teachers christened us, a phenomenon that spread to parents of all ages, races and regions. Stores began marketing stove-knob covers and "Kinderkords

I won't sit for a holiday photo with my in-laws. - - Slate Magazine
I just thought pretty much all of today's Dear Prudence letters and answers were delightfully snarky. I won't sit for a holiday photo with my in-laws. - - Slate Magazine

How Sarah Palin gets away with being feminist and traditional.
How Sarah Palin gets away with being feminist and traditional.:Aside from all the swell Alaska trivia (salmonberries, moose eyeballs, baleen etchings), Sarah Palin’s new memoir has enlightened me about one important thing. For at least a decade, I have puzzled over this new type that showed up on the political scene in the mid-'90s—the Republican “mom” politician. Here was a creature who could work fiendishly, have many children, and still smugly call herself traditional and anti-feminist. Honestly, it makes no sense. It’s like when my kid says he didn’t eat the Oreos but the