"renegade mothering" is in defense of bad mothering. These are the tales of a wayward mama. Women have told me "you say what I've experienced but never had the courage to admit." I tell the truth, as I see it -- I have no censor button. I don't try to maintain an image. I don't talk about recipes or knitting or vast over-arching parenting beliefs, nor do I offer "tips and tricks" for parenting. I don't know any of those. I just tell my story, as a woman and wife and mother who sometimes has no idea how to do any of those things. The result is often funny (if I may say so myself), sometimes raw and uncomfortable, but always real.
Web Site: http://www.renegademothering.com/
Everybody’s always trying to figure out how to do it right. What’s “best” for my children? What can I do to raise the healthiest, most well-adjusted kids possible? How can I do it “right?” Well I think we should reframe this whole discussion into a simple recognition that we’re doing it all wrong. Everything...
Do you know why? Because motherhood can take it. Because there is nothing stronger. I can tear it up, brutalize it, make fun of it in every way possible, tease the darkest corners, shed light in most covered places…and yet she stands undiminished, untouched. She barely hears me. She raises a disinterested brow...
Do you ever look at your toddler and think to yourself “Clearly, this child is insane.”? Like she’s nuts. Crazy. Bonkers. LOST IT. Like somewhere between 14 months and 2.5 years, some critical brain component just shut right down and now, well, now you’ve just got the leftover nutcase. You know what the worst...
Poppy Harlow, you’re a douchebag. And so are you, Candy Crowley. And Lester Holt, thank YOU for your insightful words in response to the rape of a 16-year-old girl in Steubenville, Ohio: “In many ways, tonight stands as a cautionary tale to a generation that has come of age in the era of social...
