Your baby’s poop isn’t special (Your baby is)

Our children are special, to us, but this is going too far.
We can now buy designer Huggies or Pampers’ diapers, including some by designer Cynthia Rowley,  but you’ll be paying 60% more for the cute factor.
Your baby as a fashion accessory?

Diapers or nappies are nothing more than a parcel of poop, a pouch full of [...]

Bad child care could turn my beautiful baby into a hoodlum

Just saw this …
“If you thought that the quality of the child care your toddler got wouldn’t matter when he or she was a teenager, think again.”
A new longitudinal study of more than 1,300 children finds the quality of child care does matter, even having an impact on them when they are teens.
Poor quality child [...]

Conquer the world, one blog post at a time

I was blown away by the passion, conviction and energies of the amazing women of BlogHer10 in New York.
You inspired me to write this article for The Sydney Morning Herald in my home town of Sydney, “Conquer the world, one blog at a time.” Some of the people I interviewed didn’t get quoted and other [...]

Sears: Get real

Dear Sears, thank you for the housekeeping tip I received in your latest e-newsletter, Manage My Life, suggesting I spend time lubricating my treadmill’s running deck. That’s very important. Not.
If I wanted to lubricate something, I’d probably opt to lubricate something more pressing than my treadmill’s unused running deck.

Sears’ Manage Your Life newsletter [...]

Be the Dancing Bear!

Guest blogger Susan K. Finston gives her take on working mom guilt. We try so hard to be the “perfect mom”  that we sometimes forget how much others appreciate our beautiful domestic dance, no matter how flawed and how guilty we feel at not doing everything perfectly:

A lifetime ago before I was a mother, I [...]

I hate you, Valentine’s Day

I hate hate hate Valentine’s Day.
I don’t mind flowers from my husband, but I prefer them when they are not preordained by convention. I’d rather have a posie of flowers than a store-bought card with his name scribbled below.
But what I can’t abide is the institutionalization of this giant fake love-in among young children.
Today I [...]

Moms fight for better road safety

Add this to your list of New Year’s resolutions that are easier to achieve than losing weight or launching your own business … and better for everyone.
What is it? Try to stop talking, texting and tweeting while driving.
I love to talk on my cell phone, particularly while driving, but I’ve been trying to give it [...]

Is every woman fair game? It seems so

What does it feel like to be a woman on the street in a cultural environment that does nothing to discourage men from heckling, following, touching or disparaging women?
That’s the message behind this video by http://www.mediaed.org
Show this video to a man and then ask, “How would you like it if perfect strangers looked you [...]

What matters most? Women

What matters most? That was the question blogger and marketer Seth Godin put to 70 top thinkers.
Paco Underhill, CEO of Envirosell, responded “women.”
He wrote: “We live in a world that is owned by men, designed by men and managed by men, and yet we expect women to participate.
But did you know …
1. Women dominate higher [...]

#Fat Girl Friday on Twitter

This post is for anyone who’s ever said, “I’m fat,” who’d rather grab another bit of cheese and slurp down one extra glass of wine than embark on another low fat, low life, diet.

Fat Girl Friday, or #FatGirlFriday on Twitter, is spreading faster than our collective behinds. We asked guest blogger Becca Bernstein why she [...]