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“Day Care is so good for the kids who can go! They become more independent, they become more imaginative in their play, they dance, and sing and do craft, and it improves their social and emotional development, plus school readiness. My 1.5 year old is doing one letter a week at daycare” Are you a SAHM feeling the pressure to put your child in day care even though you don’t have to? Here are 6 reasons why daycare is not what your kids need. 
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Yesterday I wrote about abuse existing on a continuum. I wrote that when we ignore covert abuse, give it a free pass, shove it under the rug and only recognise overt abuse we continue to create a society that has no healthy yardstick by which to measure. That when we insist that things on the “lower end” of the spectrum aren’t “actual” abuse, “actual” rape that we help to gloss over warning signs, and unhealthy behaviour. We normalise them. In some cases we even romanticize them. And as a result it makes the lines between discipline and abuse, anger and abuse, flattery and harassment, sex and rape; blurry.  We first have to recognise it. We have to name it. We have to actively teach our children to fight it, to see it. Only we aren't doing that.  Being an adult would be easy if life were black and white. Because yes "adulting is hard" but it's not hard because you have to iron your own clothes or pay the bills. It's hard because you have to try to find authenticity and truth in a world full of myth.  Most people probably think that the idea of having a baby on a boat, sailing the world sounds like insanity, but I'm starting to think it could be an attachment parent's dream.  Part three of a series on gun control in the USA, this is a roundup of some of the interesting and important articles I have read since Thursday's Oregon College shooting.  In other desperate attempts to place blame anywhere but the easy access to machine guns, the second post in this series on gun control in America looks at the most annoying and possibly most offensive argument that has sprung up recently. That the mass shootings are a mental health issue not a gun control issue. I'm sorry, what?  Yes people used to think you were cool, but then they realised that actually, you're not. You just like to claim you are.  If there is one thing that having anxiety and depression can teach you, it is that our society is absolutely obsessed with putting all our faith in emotions. We literally let them run, and ruin our lives. And yet, emotions lie And our culture constantly lies about their importance and affect.  This week, three more women and two children have been killed by those who were supposed to love them, Fathers, Boyfriends, Uncles. We cannot point the finger at some “other” and blame them and their “other” culture for this atrocity. This is our doing. This is our culture that has culminated in the massive increase in domestic, family and sexual violence that this year has brought. 62 women in 37 weeks. There is no count for the children. At least one man stands in that tally as well. It's time to call it what it is, terrorism.  |
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