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Melanie @mindofmem ?

active 4 months, 2 weeks ago
  • Melanie commented on the blog post You didn’t ask, but here are my thoughts on attachment parenting anyway   4 months, 3 weeks ago · View

    Somali, I do think you’re right. I also think that many previously career-minded/oriented women are turning on to the AP movement as a way to channel their (perhaps latent or unspoken) frustration with suddenly being stay-at-home mothers. But all this whole movement does is pit women against each other…implying that a woman who co-sleeps, babywears, [...]

  • Melanie and Jacqueline Hentzen are now friends   4 months, 3 weeks ago · View

  • Melanie wrote a new blog post: Reading a Magazine on my Lunch Break   4 months, 4 weeks ago · View

    Sacrifice your dignity on the altar of eternal beauty, one more treatment and you’ll be just perfect, darling. Lose a couple pounds and then you’ll be just right. All the beauty clichés your mother whispered in your baby ears about skin deep beauty in the eye of the beholder; the beholder is a man and [...]

  • Attachment parenting. The term is everywhere, right? Time magazine’s awful cover story “Are You Mom Enough” seemed to bring the whole debate to a (tasteless, judgemental) head. Can I just tell you how that cover infuriated me? I breastfed my two sons for a year each (due to her illness at birth I was unable [...]

  • Melanie and Sharkfu are now friends   1 year, 2 months ago · View

  • Melanie and Eesha Pandit are now friends   1 year, 4 months ago · View

  • Melanie and Jos are now friends   1 year, 4 months ago · View

  • Melanie and Anna are now friends   1 year, 4 months ago · View

  • Melanie became a registered member   1 year, 4 months ago · View

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