We started the semester talking (albeit briefly) about Tiger Moms, thanks to the media storm Amy Chua stirred up. This morning, courtesy of Yahoo! news, we have the Hiroshima mom:
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/parenting/the-opposite-of-a-tiger-mother-leaving-your-children-behind-2460982/
I hope that by the midpoint of the semester, we're getting very uncomfortable with judging women-as-mothers' choices (and it's my sense that we are). That said, this article is perfect for leading into our post-Spring Break readings: A Doll's House, The South, and The Hours!
On a related note, I'm more than a little disturbed by our propensity for discussing these very difficult parenting/mothering issues ONLY through a lens that relies on Asian labels -- I think that says something very telling about our own culture's inability to discuss honestly what it means to parent/mother a child.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Mommy Blogging
In class yesterday, we talked about the phenomenon of Mommy blogs -- and then mere hours later, Lisa Belkin, of The New York Times' Motherlode blog, posted about her article on Mommy blogs in last weekend's Magazine:
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/queens-of-the-mom-blog-kingdom/
And here's the article she wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/magazine/27armstrong-t.html?_r=1
How did I manage to time yesterday's discussion so perfectly for this article?
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/queens-of-the-mom-blog-kingdom/
And here's the article she wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/magazine/27armstrong-t.html?_r=1
How did I manage to time yesterday's discussion so perfectly for this article?
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