Denise Schipani / 22 Comments / modern families, mommy guilt, Moms on moms, mothers and work, parenting controversies / Bringing Up Bebe, Mom guilt, Pamela Druckerman, stay at home moms and guilt, working moms and guilt /
If the Olympic Games had been founded by modern American moms (rather than ancient Greeks with chariots and time to kill), the prize for Most Abject Guilt would be a coveted gold. I refuse to compete. I like to say I was born without the guilt gene, but after reading Pamela Druckerman’s Bringing Up Bebe, […]
Denise Schipani / 1 Comment / babies, childcare, kids and sleep, Moms on moms, parenting controversies / Bringing Up Bebe, Pamela Druckerman, Wall Street Journal, Why French Parents are Superior, WSJ.com /
I remember being told that making assumptions got you into trouble. (Remember that old saw: When you ASSUME you make an ASS out of YOU and ME, which is one of those plays on words that never felt terribly clever to me.) When I became a parent, though, I made a whole mess of assumptions. […]
Denise Schipani / 12 Comments / family life, grandparents, Moms on moms, parenting /
Confession time: The whole mean mommy thing? I stole the idea. Stole. It. But it’s okay, because I stole it from my mother, the Original Mean Mommy: I think I may have written this in my first-ever post on this blog, but it’s an anecdote that bears repeating. When I was newly married but not […]
Denise Schipani / 14 Comments / family life, modern families, Moms on moms, parenting /
I’m going to be honest here: I haven’t been having the greatest time lately, as a parent. As a friend of mine has said more than once (and she may have borrowed it from someone else): Parenting isn’t for sissies. My boys are going through tough stages. I don’t know what it is, exactly, but […]
Denise Schipani / 7 Comments / discipline, family life, modern families, Moms on moms, other parents, parenting / "Why Chinese Mothers are Superior", Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Wall Street Journal /
Since I wrote my post last week on The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, the parenting memoir by Yale University Law professor and writer Amy Chua, it’s gotten even more press — good, bad, backpedaling, explaining. I’ve read a lot of it, not all of it — but I did read the book, as […]
Denise Schipani / 14 Comments / Moms on moms, other parents, parenting, young kids and self-esteem / Brazilian hair straightening, curly hair, little girls and curly hair /
Back in elementary school, we got a new girl in our class one year who had Very Curly Hair. I mean, very curly. It wasn’t long and corkscrew-y, or wavy and bouncy, or quirky and Shirley Temple-like. This girl — her name was Tina Battaglia, in case she Googles herself these days — had a […]
Denise Schipani / 23 Comments / mommy guilt, Moms on moms / Gymboree, judging other mothers, Mommy & Me, mommy wars, working mothers /
So just today I got involved in an online discussion about a snippet — seriously, just a snippet — of an essay, presumably written by a writer-mom, in which the mom breezily admits that she wishes the singing-and-clapping of a typical mother-child music-and-movement class was done without her participation. She’d rather, she wrote, be sitting […]