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Breastfeeding info, even within the marvelous La Leche League organization, is not as complete as many mothers need it to be. I was very lucky. I struggled to breastfeed my son for what seemed like close to 18 or so hours a day for 16 weeks before one lady I called (a LLL counselor) stumbled [...]

An impromptu blog carnival started by Ronnie based on a post by Flo. And here’s Frank’s blogpost too. Should we create a blog ring just for this? (Prolly shouldn’t but I’d enjoy such a thing immensely. Edit: Hey, here’s a collection! Here’s another collection!) What kind of mother discovers that her child has discovered game [...]

Peace is the best armor in a stressed out world. Confidence is way better than fear alone. Karl can’t help but notice how odd it is that people get worked up but being in the midst of it doesn’t prepare one for it. Knowing the difference gives one a taste for a better way, that’s [...]

Do you know what this plant is called?(large jpg file so it may take some time to load on your page)

Beverly Mickens, comedienne, said: Conservatives say teaching sex education in the public schools will promote promiscuity. With our education system? If we promote promiscuity the same way we promote math or science, they’ve got nothing to worry about.

It seems to me something very basic is wrong about testing students. The meaning of testing is to try something to see if it’s good, interesting, worthy, or true. Is that what schools do with students? I think the best purpose of testing is for learning. A person tests what is being learned about and [...]

And I quote: “Children are not just awesomely cool. They are YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. They didn’t ask to be here, you dragged them into this world. They naturally know what they like/don’t like, when they are hungry/not, what they want/don’t want and what their bodies need. ‘Eat it or fix something … is shirking your responsibility [...]

So here it is. I have a li’l meme to play with, if anyone’s interested. Feel free to pass it around if it strikes you as fun. I’m not going to tag anyone because tagging’s not my thing. It might not see much net-time, but that’s ok. Art can be related to anything. Put a [...]