And the last thing we’ll post on the whole Tiger Mother thing. Maybe. The Ottawa Citizen‘s Roger Collier wrote his response to Amy Chua last weekend: Why doesn’t he force his kids to spend hours on the piano or violin? “You don’t become CEO by butchering Beethoven on a baby grand. You become CEO by stepping over colleagues after stabbing them in the back. Besides, we have Guitar Hero IV on Xbox, so we got the music thing covered.”
Ever have one of those days when you doubt your parenting skills? That’s what they invented Toddlers and Tiaras for, so you can always know that there are far worse moms than you. Check out this clip of a pageant mom forcing her daughter to get her eyebrows waxed. Then go call your mom and let her know she did a good job raising you. Via Huffington Post.
Did you watch the Golden Globes last night? Are you an armchair fashion critique? Lots of great family fun-type news from last night’s show: Toy Story 3 won Best Animated Feature Film and since an animated film is likely to be a good family film, we’re thrilled that there didn’t seem to be any filler-nominations in the whole category. Are clever and beautiful kid-appropriate movies that don’t bore parents to tears the new standard? (We’re aware awesome family movies have been around for a while, but it often seems like there’s one or two good ones each year, then a bunch of duds.)
Emily Matchar on Salon writes about her recent obsession with Mormon mom blogs. One of the bloggers she follows, Natalie Holbrook, of Nat the Fat Rat explains it thusly: “It seems that a lot of popular culture wants to portray marriage and motherhood as demeaning, restrictive or simple, but in the LDS church, motherhood is a very important job, and it’s treated with a lot of respect.” Consider our interest piqued!
As always, BoingBoing has found us something we want: monster footprint snow shoes. Slow Mo Mama simply drew monster-y footprints on some study cardboard, cut them out and laced string through four holes in the footprint shape to tie it to a boot. Via BoingBoing.
Facebook friend Amanda tipped us off to this Salon essay titled, “Regrets of a stay-at-home-mom.” Borrowing from Jane Austen’s famous phrase, she writes, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of two teenagers must be in want of a steady paycheck and employer-sponsored health insurance.” Working moms, what do you think?
Catherine Connors aka her bad mother has a lovely rebuttal to the whole Tiger mom = better mom debate. Her mother supported her love of ballet, despite the fact that Connors wasn’t exactly the most graceful of ballerinas, apparently. Catherine’s turned out pretty darn good we think. Read more...
