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Inside Motherhood

Archive for the ‘Mothering’ Category

September 13th, 2008

Busy Day Pot Roast

Saturdays always seem to be the busiest day of the week and one of my favorite days to whip out the crock pot for some help. One of my most favorite things to make in it is pot roast because there are so many different ways you can make it, and so many different things […]

By Heather -- 2 comments

September 9th, 2008

Should the National Driving Age Be Raised?

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is asking US states to raise the national driving age from 16 to 17 or 18. They cite a higher incidence of accidents with teen drivers as the cause for their proposal.
This is something I think should have happened a long time ago. Sure, at 16 I […]

By Heather -- 0 comments

September 8th, 2008

Getting back into a routine

Last year, when my daughter started Kindergarten, it was my first time dealing with a school routine where my role was that of a parent and not a student. It kept me busy, figuring it out but we slipped into it pretty quickly and easily.
I’m finding it harder this year. After a full […]

By Sherry -- 2 comments

August 29th, 2008

Breastfeeding mother shamed for using Parents’ room

According to this story, a young mother was followed and questioned by security officers and even the police after she had used a mall’s Parents’ Room to express breast milk for her baby. Two complaints had been filed, one by another female shopper and the second by a female cleaning lady.
The mall has since […]

By Sherry -- 3 comments

August 23rd, 2008

Under Pressure

Over the next week we’re going to be moving. Six years ago when we first moved into this house our three daughters were really just babies (3 and 2 years old) and we had plenty of room.
Of course, as they’ve grown the house has become smaller and smaller and we realized this spring that the […]

By Heather -- 2 comments

August 19th, 2008

Do You Grow That Thick Skin or Does It Just Come Naturally?

I often wonder how celebrity moms do it, putting themselves, their children and often times their significant others at the mercy of anyone who thinks they have any room to throw their judgments around.
Roseanne Barr recently slammed the Jolie-Pitts on her weblog (google it) in a “letter” to Angelina’s actor-dad John Voight. In it […]

By Heather -- 4 comments