As I travel around the blogosphere, learning from all the wise and wonderful ladies out there, I keep encountering an idea that I feel needs a little more thinking through. Buried in amongst often excellent advice about mothering and homemaking, homeschooling and organizing is a myth, a logical sounding, but functionally unprovable and sometimes even [...]

There is a question that ranks right up there with childbirth method, homeschooling, and whether or not you’ll let your children watch TV. Proponents of both sides promise you a happy, healthy child if you follow their advice, and a maladjusted, sickly child if you go with the other side. There’s been a lot of [...]

Shortly after I began my own journey of breastfeeding, people started sharing with me stories of women, either themselves or friends, who “couldn’t” breastfeed because they didn’t “have enough milk.” At first I simply joined in the sorrow and horror, thinking this or that poor woman’s inability was an unfortunate fluke. But as time [...]