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Friday, January 25, 2013

Please Don't Help My Kids

A Patch blogger's post about not helping her children on the slide is being debated across the country.

A Patch blog from Alameda, Calif., called “Please Don’t Help My Kids” has struck a nerve with readers across the country.  Posted in September, the blog has taken off over the past few weeks as it has found a second life through social media sharing. The blog has 124,000 Facebook recommendations and 833 people have tweeted the blog. The blog is an open letter to other parents at the playground. The blogger Kate Bassford Baker’s basic request is for parents to not help her daughters on the slide. She wrote that she wants her daughters to do things and learn things on their own. Learning to walk up the slide’s ladder is the first step to learning new things and overcoming obstacles, she wrote. “Because, as they grow up, the ladders will only…

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Where Do You Stand on Breastfeeding in Public?

A New England mother was asked to cover up while feeding her child at a restaurant this week.

The topic of breastfeeding in public forged into the spotlight in New England this week, after a mother chose to breastfeed her child in a Hillsborough, N.H. restaurant. Protesters gathered outside the Tooky Mills Pub in Hillsborough on Wednesday, after a local mother was asked to cover up while breastfeeding her 10-month-old child, exposing a breast in the restaurant's dining room, according to a report on WCVB.com. The request to cover up, which was followed by customer complaints, resulted in a protest outside the restaurant Wednesday night.  Those protestors spoke out in awareness and support of the mother, as well as in support of breastfeeding in public. Where do you stand on this issue? Do you think mothers should be able to …

Jen

1:47 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Talking about offensive, why don't we discuss teenage girls walking around with "Juicy" stamped on their behind, or teenage boys with their pants falling off showing their underwear, or how about the morbidly obese people I have to look at on a daily basis? What about half naked women on television, or the half naked, half starved women in advertisements, the current risque dialog on television …   more ›

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