02 April 2009 ~ Comments Off

It took the middle school office workers 3 minutes to realize I was a parent and not a student….

It took the middle school office workers 3 minutes to realize I was a parent and not a student. I’m indistinguishable from an 8th grader.

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21 October 2008 ~ Comments Off

The New York Times: Where all parents are Mothers. Or at least all concerned parents. Sigh.

The New York Times: Where all parents are Mothers. Or at least all concerned parents. Sigh.

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17 September 2008 ~ Comments Off

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because “every family has challenges,” even as black and Latino families with similar “challenges” are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.?

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because “every family has challenges,” even as black and Latino families [...]

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12 September 2008 ~ Comments Off

For Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB) purposes, there is a presumption that when both a male and female parent live in the same home as the child, the female parent is considered to be primarily responsible for the child and should apply.

For Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB) purposes, there is a presumption that when both a male and female parent live in the same home as the child, the female parent is considered to be primarily responsible for the child and should apply.Women and Children First

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30 July 2008 ~ Comments Off

The CDC is saying not to feed raw jalapenos to infants during this salmonella outbreak. Responsible parents take note.

The CDC is saying not to feed raw jalapenos to infants during this salmonella outbreak. Responsible parents take note.Twitter / Tim Siedell

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03 October 2007 ~ Comments Off

I suppose if there was an internet back then, one could have learned the benefits of bloodletting from scores of websites. Bleed Autism Now! practitioners would spread the BAN! protocol far and wide, telling story after story of the children who were rescued from the abyss of mind-blindness and senseless spinning. The more people who signed on to the BAN! protocol, the more self-evident its worth. Heart-shaped Autism Bandages would adorn every donkey cart, testament to the love that parents felt for the children they bled.

I suppose if there was an internet back then, one could have learned the benefits of bloodletting from scores of websites. Bleed Autism Now! practitioners would spread the BAN! protocol far and wide, telling story after story of the children who were rescued from the abyss of mind-blindness and senseless spinning. The more people who [...]

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13 September 2007 ~ 4 Comments

Principles, Shminciples

Bullet has a great post up on Left Brain/Right Brain about her son that reminded me of when I took Jared to the zoo with my parents. In just the same way that Tom can’t abide walking around the park to the entrance, Jared used to hate back-tracking.
We were at the National Zoo wandering around [...]

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26 June 2006 ~ Comments Off

Painful Stupidity

Better autism bloggers have already covered the stupidity of the Chicago Tribune’s Painful questions of blame (reg. required), but a couple things leapt off the page at me, so I have to get in my two cents.
For those who haven’t been following the Katie McCarron story, her mother, a doctor, broke down, killed 3-year-old Katie, [...]

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