News and Culture Five
What we’re reading today:
1. With the changes to autism diagnoses, some parents are worried about reductions in services with their kids’ treatment.
2. Do you love Valentine’s Day? Do you hate it? Do you have to mask your hated of this Hallmark holiday since you have kids and they’re expected to give out valentines to everyone in their class?
3. How to raise racist kids: Don’t point out any ethnic differences ever. Turns out we do need to talk about our differences with our kids, and probably sometime before age 9.
4. We’re having a hard time wrapping our heads around this one: one child development prof says that moms and dads need assigned roles and dads need to spend more time playing with the kids while moms tidy up.
5. And while this has nothing to do with parenting or kids, can we just take a few moments to appreciate Adele at the Grammy’s? Read more...
Queer as Moms
Meri Perra blogs about the challenges she and her partner face in trying to raise their girls with feminist values
Our three-year-old, Rosa, has started dropping race bombs. Take this one from Wednesday night. We had just gotten home from day care. I was busy, starting the get home–make dinner–do bedtime marathon. Rosa began to tell me about her day. She talked about lunch:
“We had salad, and tomatoes and pasta and sauce,” she said.
“Did you eat the salad?” I asked.
“No,” Rosa shook her head.
“Did you eat the tomatoes?”
“No,” more head shakes.
Rosa is a strict meatatarian.
“Did you eat the pasta?”
“Yes,” she nodded. “I had a little bit, and then a little bit and then a little bit more.”
“That’s great,” I said. “What did you like about the pasta? How does Farrah (day care cook) make it?” Read more...
Blog
What we’re reading on the blogs today:
Emily Rosenbaum at Babble asked some experts how to explain diversity to her son after was curious about a woman in a burka.
Tia, of Christopher and Tia, waxes nostalgic on a Christmas tradition between her and her grandmother, now passed on to her kids.
Dylan Kendall at the Huffington Post took part in a Play-Doh design challenge wherein kids recreated their favourite out of Play-Doh. While all the submissions in the photo gallery are impressive (We don’t recall going much beyond the spaghetti factory in terms of Play-Doh sculpture techniques), the purple shoes are a favourite.
Speaking of shoes – every purchased those light-up sneakers for your kid, envious that your own kicks didn’t give off a similar glow? No more! We saw these Electrolites on Thrillist and thought: awesome.
