Week in review
My birthday week has been wonderful (so far, I’m still celebrating!).
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Filed under Blogism | Comment (0)TGIF, dudes
Another lovely day, but perhaps the last one for a while, at least as far as the weather is concerned. It’s a 3 day weekend here, but the forecast is calling for rain. Oh well, more crafting time for me!
I stumbled upon a great article on homeschooling as an expression of feminist and progressive politics and decided, with some hesitation, to share it with my homeschool group. Now, our group is secular and quite diverse, but I knew there were members who would find the article interesting and affirming. I added a bit of my own thoughts on the issue of being a woman financially dependent on my male partner and how I have difficulty reconciling that with my own feminism.
And, of course. Someone threw in the “that’s what women are made for” and “men were made to be providers yadda yadda yadda.
Sigh.
I don’t want to start a political debate there so let me make my points here:
I do not believe that my uterus absolves me of any financial responsibility for my family. Nor does it make me solely responsible for the state of our home, the laundry, etc.
I do not believe my husband’s penis absolves him of any responsibility for his children’s health, well-being or education. Nor does it make him solely responsible for protecting and providing for the family.
Biology is not desitny.
Not to mention this whole “women are for this, men for that” bullshit is so fucking heterosexist it makes my head spin. What if there are two mommies? Who is in charge of providing for there kids? Two daddies—-do those children just not get nutured? How dumb is that? I hate all the unexamined privilege that comes with this pretty little traditional world view.
I do value stay-at-home-parenting. I have been a SAHM and I dream about returning to that position. I also alternately dream of working full time and having my husband be the at-home parent for a bit. We have a, relatively, egalitarian partnership and that’s something we put a good bit of effort into. I think it’s important to model that for the kids. When I had no income of my own, I felt a power differential and I did not like it. In my head, I knew what I was contributing was worthwhile but I missed having something separate from my family and home that was mine and productive and, yeah, it’s so easy to feel “trapped” and “without options” when you are home alone all day with babies (even if they are the sweetest, cutest babies ever). There is a reason the rates for depression are so high among SAHMs.
[OK, I actually don't know what the rates for depression are for SAHMs vs. WAHMs vs. WOHMs vs. Women-who-are-not-moms, but, anedotaly, I know a lot more SAHMs who battle depression than WOHMs. Maybe WOHMs just don't have time to contemplate their mental health so they are going undiagnosed. I don't know. If you have stats on this, I'd love to see 'em!]
Filed under Homeschooling, Politics | Comments (3)Home Alone
I’m home alone tonight! The kids are all spending the night at their friends. I’m making potato, zucchini and carrot pancakes. It’s a new recipe so wish me luck!
I’ll probably work on this site some more as well. I am gaining confidence with the code involved, but still having issue finding just the images and backgrounds I want. I may end up having to teach myself photoshop anyway to make my own. lolz
I did manage to add tweet suite and a follow me on twitter button. However, now I’m rethinking that as my twitter is not always kid/work safe. Hrmmm.
Filed under Blogism, Domesticity | Comment (0)Links for a Thursday Morning
Earth Day, gardening for kids:
http://www.copper-tree.ca/garden/
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/mathline/concepts/earthday.shtm
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/firstgarden/
http://thinkgreen.com/students-k-5
http://www.loveearth.com/uk/
http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno/ Isabella Rossalini’s Green Porn. It’s hilarious and informative.
http://www.craftypod.com/2009/04/22/crafty-linky-goodness/ Great list of craft links.
It’s National Poetry Month!! http://www.teachersdomain.org/special/pe08-ex/
It’s Talk Like Shakespeare Day!! http://www.talklikeshakespeare.org/main.taf?p=0,2
Some twitter sites
http://blog.mrtweet.net/upgrading-your-twitter-experience-with-greasemonkey
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/26500
Filed under ClickMe!, Homeschooling | Comment (0)Firefox vs Safari
So, this cute girl I’m always trying to impress recommended I give safari a try.
Safari has a bunch of new features that are pretty cool. Well, really just one of them is really cool. But, safari just isn’t as pretty and it doesn’t allow as much customization. I tried to love it, I really did.
I have some addons on my firefox that make is so adorable! Check it:
In case you are curious, the theme is avant.garde.1001 in rosa and the different colored tabs are from a plug in called, oddly enough, ColorfulTabs.
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