Baby Blues: âMe Time’ Isnât The Mommy Burnout Cure-All I Thought It Would Be
It’s Time Facebook Cracks Down On Gender Based Hate Speech
Paul Tudor Jones Mansplains Many Insightful Truths About Mothers In The Workplace
Anonymous Mom: I’m Secretly Sleep Training My Friend’s AP Baby
STFU Parents: Deathjacking Is A Sure Way To Kill The Mood On Social Media
Protecting Our Sons From ‘Aggressive’ Girls Is The Most Anti-Feminist Parenting Crap Ever
Are you kidding me? So any random psycho can walk into the library, open Instagram, pick out a target and have access to all of the information necessary to find and kidnap said child? In what world is this okay? When I was growing up, we weren’t even allowed to wear shirts or hats with our names on them because kidnappers might beckon us by calling our names out. This so totally goes beyond that. More
James McGibney is sick and tired of reading about kids who kill themselves after being subjected to online and offline bullying, which is why he started BullyVille.com. If he reads about a kid attempting suicide after some jerk classmates litter their Facebook pages with insults, it infuriates him, and apparently he is not alone. Thousands of celebrities have joined his cause, including Becca Tobin from the hit show Glee on FOX and Dj ASHBA, lead guitarist for Guns N Roses.  BullyVille has been credited for saving countless young lives and the national media has taken notice. More
Anonymous members and sects continue to hunt child predators on the internet, and I spoke with one member who has made putting an end to child pornography his life’s work. More
I have been arguing on the Internet. Which, yes, I know, is stupid and pointless. I know my debates and arguments are not going to sway everyone’s opinion, but as a woman and a mom I still keep screaming into the ether and at least hoping by doing so that I am making a small dent in what I like to refer to as the “Gigantic pile of victim-blaming and rape-shaming fuckery.” Unless one of you gentle readers can give me a better title that can be made into a cute little acronym or something. In this case, I have been arguing with Lee Stranahan, over whether or not it’s fair to call the Steubenville Jane Doe’s rape “brutal.”
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I don’t always assume that teenagers are the most thoughtful or logical of folks. Raging hormones and all that. But I generally believe that kids are smarter than we assume. They’re resourceful. They’re capable of doing really amazing things.
So maybe I’m over-estimating the intelligence of these California teenagers, but I feel like they’re pulling a fast one over on the authorities, not to mention their parents. More
But I will tell you one thing, if any of my children ever behaved in any way even remotely close to the Steubenville “Rape Crew” or their cronies, I’m the type of mother who would not protect my kid in this situation. I would not blame the victim. I would not have this “boys will be boys” mentality I have seen expressed by people in regard to the Michael Nodianos video. More
I hate this whole buying people trend. Or you know, buying their fair maidenhood in exchange for piles of cash in exchange for the chance to “take” their virginity. It’s totally bumming me out because the girl for sale in this case is an 18-year-old high school student from Brazil who is selling off her de-flowering (I love that term, it’s so medieval) to pay for her sick mom’s medical bills. More
We need to know that in our darkest times, when things like Hurricane Sandy happen, when Sandy Hook happens, when it seems there is no light or hope and that there is nothing good left in the world, that there is. It just goes without a face, and it goes with no membership fees, and it goes a lot of the time with no recognition. You can’t join Anonymous. But all of us are Anonymous. More
When confronted with some textbook Internet slut shaming, Swedish teens in the Gothenburg area simply weren’t having it. More
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Mom Arrested For Putting 3-Yr-Old Up For Adoption On Craigslist - That's Not The Worst Part
If you needed even more proof that the Internet does as much good as it does bad, adoption may be the latest two-sided coin to add to your collection of dinner party topics. More
Mostly what I worry about is what will happen when my kids or, for that matter, their friends Google me and discover that I am eminently searchable. I worry that what they might find would not gel with the idea of what a âmomâ should be doing. More
E-mail is another way of yelling at your kids without actually having to yell at them. More
As I stress about how to handle his growing interest in video games that knows no bounds, I realized something about myself. I’m the one setting a bad example. More
Britney Spears appears to be doing better since her very public breakdown about five years ago. She’s engaged, takes Hawaii vacations with her two little boys, and posts images of her kids to social media: all conventional markers of a functioning mother in 2012. But despite her going through the motions of normalcy, the mother of two reportedly doesn’t have full access to the world wide web — like a child with a overprotective mommy. More
