• Last updated 3/30/13 by mamazee

by Sarah Juliusson of www.MamaRenew.ca – Find Mama Renew on Facebook & Twitter Like most of you I’ve had a lot of new beginnings. New school, new work, new lovers, new children, new journals, new neighborhoods, new workout routines…  There’s nothing like a blank slate to both terrify & enthrall.  A fresh chance, wide open with possibility. and now… A New Blog! -  This new shared blog is an exciting new leap for us as the Mothering community.   I look forward to seeing the personality of this new blog emerge, and the ways in which our posts... read more

• Last updated 4/2/13 by AdinaL

Thank you to everyone who weighed in on the tomatoes-in-plastic-bag awkward conversation I wrote about last week! I really appreciated reading the responses. You all rock. Thinking about talking to Peter reminded me of another conversation I had when I was in graduate school at Emory. My friend G. was on a campus bench looking glum. “I broke up with the nicest girl a few days ago,” he said, hugging himself and slumping down even further. “She was too serious. I don’t want to get too involved.” “G.,” I said. “You’re so full of... read more

• Last updated 3/30/13 by mamazee

The Muse of love, art, cash, strategy, worship, desire, wellness, beauty, business plans. Don’t you adore her? Do you…adore her? Actively? Adore. Muses simply must be adored. They’re as grandiose as they are generous. They like to be respected. If you meet them half way, they’ll give you the moon, the breakthrough concept, the stroke of…genius. Dis’ your muse and she’s likely to stop dropping by. She’s righteous. Genius is like that. As Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) puts it in her freshly legendary TED Talk, we’ve made “a huge error in... read more

• Last updated 9/5/10 by Mothering Editorial

I am suspicious that my son may have PFAPA. The doctors keep calling it a various but I am convinced it is PFAPA. I am currently seeing a homeopath but she is not aware of PFAPA. What remedies would you recommend in the treatment of this disorder. Doctors are recommending a tonsellictomy but I would like to explore the homeopathic route first. Your advice would be very much appreciated.I am not a homeopathic expert, but I asked my wife (Amy Lansky, author of Impossible Cure -- www.impossiblecure.com -- to see what she thinks).  Here is what she says: Looking up... read more

• Last updated 7/13/10 by Mothering Editorial

July 14, 2010 The Environmental Working Group has reported that Kellogg's, makers of cereals and other food products, has recalled approximately 30 million boxes of cereal. A little understood petrochemical called methylnaphthalene, found in the packaging of these cereals, was responsible the recall. Customers became ill after smelling and ingesting the cereals. The Environmental Working Group reports "Methylnaphthalene, which comes in two forms, is a component of crude oil and coal tar and may also be formed “as a pyrolytic byproduct from the combustion of tobacco,... read more

• Last updated 3/13/13 by mamazee

There’s been more candy eating and gum chewing in our house this week than after Halloween. Partly because of the candy throwing at the July 4th parade in Ashland and partly because my mother-in-law was just here for a visit (note to Susan: this is not a criticism of you in any way. We had a wonderful time and want you to come back soon). My kids aren’t just swallowing loads of refined sugar (linked to the huge increase of juvenile diabetes among children in the United States) and hydrogenated oils (so taxing to liver, heart, and other organs it’s... read more

• Last updated 7/6/10 by Mothering Editorial

July 7th, 2010 In April 2010, the Bioethics Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) called for a relaxation of laws surrounding female genital cutting in the US. After outrage form activists, doctors, and the public the AAP recalled its statement. 1 Intact America has released an open letter to the AAP's task force on circumcision, published in The Washington Post on July 1st, to bring attention to the continued cutting of boys genitals in the US in the form of circumcision. The letter states, "Intact America calls upon the AAP to adopt a position... read more

• Last updated 3/13/13 by mamazee

When my friend B. went to see a specialist last Thursday, she watched a representative from a drug company sail into the waiting room carrying six cups of coffee and a bag of pastries for the office. In the meantime she sat and waited. And waited. And waited. She had an 8:30 a.m. appointment but wasn’t seen until 9:15. “It’s just wrong,” she wrote in an email to some friends. We haven’t been to the doctor in almost three years and I have been struggling with camp forms lately, wondering who to list as our primary care physician. Do we even have one? But I... read more

• Last updated 3/13/13 by mamazee

Since penis is not a word you’ve read on this blog before and since I’ve deleted the 15 other incarnations of this sentence and I’ve been staring at this white screen wondering how to approach this topic, let’s just put the word penis down a few times to get used to seeing it here: Penis penis penis. Today, my friends (Dad, stop reading this), we’re going to talk about penises. Although in England fewer than five percent of men are circumcised, about 79 percent of American men get a totally functional and important part of their anatomy cut off... read more

• Last updated 4/25/11 by Mothering Editorial

By Angel Chase Web Exclusive - December 5, 2008 I awake to my reflection; there are two liquid brown eyes staring intently back into mine. These are my features, yet not quite my own. On my young son's face, they have been made perfect. My son is still looking at me, concerned. "Mommy, you awake? It's..." his attention flies to the clock radio sitting on the nightstand, and his forehead wrinkles as he concentrates on the numbers he sees displayed. "...it's 7, 1, 7—time to go to school and work," he announces. I try to shake off the fogged feeling that engulfs me and... read more