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May 17, 2012

Would You Take Your Kids To The Park And Leave Them There?

Saturday is the annual Take Our Children To The Park and Leave Them There Day (TOCTTPLTTD). Can you even fathom it? Taking your kids to the park, and then abadoning them?

What would they do?

What about the predators?

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May 16, 2012

Should Kids Be Banned From Tanning Salons?

My headline is kind of facetious because of course I think kids should be banned from tanning salons. I would personally wrap my kids in UV-protectant clothing 365 days a year if I could.

I don't tan. I freckle, burn, peel and repeat. I don't even know what I look like tanned, but I have had the desire to have that celebrity-healthy glow. So I went to a tanning salon once and the whole experience freaked me out. The worst part? There were signs all over the place saying that tanning was healthy and good for you.

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May 15, 2012

BFFs?: Can Mothers Be Too Close To Their Daughters?

I have a friend from high school who had the coolest mom. She could talk about anything with her mom. Her mom even gave her beer and they got matching tattoos when my friend graduated.

So cool. The rest of us with mommish moms were so jealous.

So cool, until my friend needed a mother. Then it wasn't so cool.

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May 14, 2012

Catholic School Forfeits Championship Because Of A Girl

Paige Sultzbach won't be playing in her championship baseball game in Phoenix. In fact, her whole team will be sitting this one out.

A Catholic school that was supposed to face the 15-year-old's baseball team forfeited instead of facing a girl on the field.

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May 13, 2012

The Joys of Motherhood

Did you have a nice Mother's Day? Did it pass unnoticed? Are there toast crumbs in your bed?

After last week's hand-wringing about motherhood and the media's constant attempts to criticize, judge and divide mothers. I thought it would be nice to remember why we like being parents.

What are the little things that bring joy to you? Not the big moments, but the little ones that make it worthwhile?

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May 10, 2012

Is Time Magazine's Cover Of Mom Breastfeeding 3-Year-Old Too Much?

I breastfed my kids until they were two. I co-slept, I slinged and I strollered. I even have attachment parenting guru, Dr. Sears, sitting right here on my shelf and I loved it.

But I don't like the latest Time magazine cover.

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Is Motherhood Replacing Sexism?

I admit it, I have been asking myself this question quietly for a while: has motherhood replaced sexism as a way to keep women out of the workforce?

I'm just not sure of the answer.

But Elizabeth Badinter is. She is a famous philosopher and privileged academic from France whose new book, The Conflict: Does Modern Motherhood Undermine the Status of Women?, is making waves in the media on both sides of the Atlantic. (And is continuing our state of awe over French parenting.)

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May 8, 2012

I'm Proud To Be Raising A Mama's Boy

I hope that I am raising mama's boys. Not just because I have trouble letting go (which I do) but because I think boys that have good relationships with their mothers are nicer men.

But I don't mean mama's boys like you may be thinking. Not wussy, enmeshed wimps - which is how popular culture portrays mamas' boys, even though we mothers of boys know better.

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May 7, 2012

Arsenic in Apple Juice? What's Next?

I would love for a day to go by where I am not alerted to some new scary information about food -- whether it is fillers or dyes or just the general badness about the food supply chain. I'm just not sure whom to trust anymore. So I alternate between ignoring the new information and being super-controlling about what comes into the house. 

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May 6, 2012

Why Did Disabled Parents Have To Fight For Custody?

I'm sure the yell of excitement could be heard down the hall as a couple learned that they would not be losing custody of their newborn. 

Maricyl Palisoc and Charlie Wilton have a 9-pound, three-week-old son named William. Instead of enjoying his first few weeks of life, the couple have been fighting with Children's Aid to maintain custody. Both parents have cerebral palsy and the Children's Aid Society threatened to take the baby away from them, unless they had an able-bodied person with them 24 hours a day. 

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Emma WavermanEmma Waverman

Emma Waverman writes five days a week about the chaos of modern family life here at MSN.ca. She is the co-author of the family cookbook Whining and Dining: Mealtime Survival for Picky Eaters and Families Who Love Them and is hoping to one day to finish her certification as a parenting coach. She lives with her three kids, ranging from tween to grade schooler, and husband in Toronto. Emma has written for a variety of national parenting and lifestyle magazines and papers. When she’s is not making typos, telling you what she thinks, and thinking about dinner - you can find her on Twitter at @emmawaverman. You can contact Emma at embracingchaos@hotmail.ca

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