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I Didn’t Breastfeed My Daughter, And I Still Feel Bad About It

Heavy Handed Advice

My daughter is a teenager now, and I still feel awful about not breastfeeding her when she was a baby. There's a post on my blog (Breast is Not Always Best, And we Need To Stop Telling Women That It Is) a friend wrote about how breastfeeding just isn't in the cards for some women, and we need to stop shaming them. Kid suckles and looks at her mother. Indoor, close up Most moms that read it write to me saying thank you for a post that means so much to them, but others write in to say horrible, nasty things about moms that couldn't breastfeed. They call us quitters, losers, Keep Reading >>>

WHO Added The Anti-Vaccine Movement As A Top 10 Health Threat Of 2019

Heavy Handed Advice

The World Health Organization lists the top 10 health threats facing the whole world each year, and for 2019 they have named vaccine hesitancy as one of those top ten. Read 5 Reasons Not To Vaccinate Your Kids. If it's not enough, this isn't an epidemic, this isn't a disease. It's full-on listed by the WHO as a hesitancy. Vaccine hesitancy is a top ten world health threat. Just what is vaccine hesitancy? According to the WHO, it's "the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the availability of vaccines." Which basically means people won't take vaccines even when Keep Reading >>>

Carmen Sandiego Got Rebooted Today, and It’s Giving Me All The Feels

Pop Goes The Culture

Any kid of the nineties spent hours on hours with The Carmen Sandiego game played on that old school desktop that sat in your living room in a dusty corner. I, of course, spent my spunky pre-teen after school hours tuned into PBS watching that red-headed detective save the world with a series of clues designed to teach me Geography better than any map-based lesson plan ever could. Ahh, life before high speed internet. Between dial up noises and text based web, we were all trying to figure out just WHERE in the world Carmen Sandiego was. Netflix has rebooted Keep Reading >>>

Thank You Gillette For Showing Men What The Best Really Looks Like

Pop Goes The Culture

Gillette's new commercial, about being the best a man can get has flipped the script and is a darn fine example of how we want to raise our boys to be. They took their crazy popular slogan, and turned it into something with an actual message behind it. No more razors gliding slowly across a man's face. no more MAN'S MAN machismo. https://youtu.be/koPmuEyP3a0 What I love is that they aren't just saying talk to your boys, and tell them to be men. Instead it's all about SHOWING them what it means to be a man. And not the kind of man that harasses women, or treats them Keep Reading >>>

I Just Want To Go To The Beach

Places You Wish You Were

Real life sucks. I just want to go to the beach.  Do you ever have that nagging feeling where all you want to do is go to the beach?  This happens to me every winter. It’s cold, a little too wet, and way too dreary. All I want to do is go to the beach. It permeates every thought I have. I should be paying bills, but I find myself researching cruises I could totally afford if it weren’t for that pesky mortgage.  I think my bank would understand if I explained to them that the beach trip was absolutely necessary for my mental health, right? I should be Keep Reading >>>