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Breeched from birth
I was thinking about Penni’s f word article the other day. I too have a little boy and am trying to raise him no differently than I would a little girl. It’s more difficult than you might think. Our...
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It’s just a bloody COLOUR!
Orion went out with his dad today, as he does most Saturdays. Apparently during their day out they went to get a new car seat. When they opened the box, they found it was pink. They’d ordered a silver...
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Shared parenting, or lack of /rant
By Ruth Moss (Rant alert). The ever-brilliant Renee over at Womanist Musings recently wrote a post about how biology was not destiny. I can’t hope to explain succinctly so I suggest reading it...
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On raising male children.
I wrote this for my main blog and then figured it would fit in pretty well here, so here it is for your dissection. I’ve read a lot in the radical feminist blogosphere about how radical feminist women...
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First Time Mum
You want to know something? I never really got motherhood, before I had my baby a month ago. Even when I was pregnant, it was hard to think of ‘us’ as opposed to ‘me’. I had all sorts of ideas of...
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“Raising Boys”? Really?
I read a review recently over the the F word of a book I was seriously considering buying. Thank goodness I did. I’ve a feeling the book might have pushed my blood pressure sky high. The book was...
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Rape & Sexual Violence – Another Reason for PHSE in Schools
TRIGGER WARNING: This article may cause some upset to survivors of rape and sexual violence. It may cause some upset to all readers. Womankind is currently in support of PHSE of becoming part of the...
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Learning to be “papa” too
At a La Leche League conference, someone – I think it might even have been the famous Diane Wiessinger herself – was talking about the words mama and papa. She said papa, or dada, with its hard...
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Department of WIN: Polarn O. Pyret
What a slogan! Not for girls. Not for boys. We make clothes for children. I love this slogan. It sums up everything I want in a clothing store for my child. We gender children’s clothing way before...
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