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  • More Regretful Moms Let Loose

    Childfreedom
    12 Dec 2011 | 10:06 am
    Thanks to CFVixen for directing me to a thread that is currently running on a site called CafeMom in which moms are venting about how much they hate motherhood, regret having kids and are angry that they were duped into believing the myth that motherhood is the most wonderful and necessary path to happiness and fulfilment. The thread starts with this post and takes off running from there. "Why

  • Another WTF????

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    14 Jan 2012 | 2:24 am
    Foetus parties...are these people for real?????? http://www.independent.co...rties-trend-6289131.html

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    Childfreedom
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:09 am

  • Babies DON'T go free at the Olympics

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    24 Jan 2012 | 5:58 pm
    Yay!Babies will be banned from the Olympics unless they have their own ticket - even if they were not conceived when their parents bought seats.2012 organiser Locog has said every child, including babies carried in their parents' arms, must have a ticket.AND it's upset moosnet - result!http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-olympics/article-24030578-babies-told-to-buy-a-ticket.do

  • Chrome Users: Try the WordPress.com Extension

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    Christopher Finke
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:54 pm
    Want to receive WordPress.com notifications instantly, even when you’re not on WordPress.com? Add the new WordPress.com extension for Chrome and as soon as you get a new follower or a new like on one of your posts, a notification will appear in your browser: Simply click the icon to view your latest WordPress.com notifications: Start following new blogs without visiting WordPress.com The Chrome extension also makes it easy to follow sites from your WordPress.com account by displaying a Follow button whenever you’re browsing a site that has an RSS feed. Clicking the Follow button…
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  • Friday Laugh

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:09 am

  • In the Life F.C.

    12 Jan 2012 | 12:27 pm
    I was heating up my lunch today in the office kitchen when an associate (who I do not know well) asked me how I was doing and how my holidays were.  We got to chatting about holidays and winter and I mentioned that I am disappointed that we haven't gotten any snow this year so far because I love to ski, particularly on real snow, as opposed to machine-made.  She was nodding vigorously in

  • More Regretful Moms Let Loose

    12 Dec 2011 | 10:06 am
    Thanks to CFVixen for directing me to a thread that is currently running on a site called CafeMom in which moms are venting about how much they hate motherhood, regret having kids and are angry that they were duped into believing the myth that motherhood is the most wonderful and necessary path to happiness and fulfilment. The thread starts with this post and takes off running from there. "Why

  • Grocery bill high? It could be worse.

    5 Dec 2011 | 1:53 pm
    How much money does your household spend on groceries in a month?  Probably a whole lot less than someone who has kids. I was out with my friend Sara on Saturday.  She's a mom of 2 young boys, so her household has 4 people total.  We were talking about money and how expensive everything is these days.  She lamented that her $800/month grocery budget makes it almost impossible to keep her family

  • Happy Meals - Just Say No

    2 Dec 2011 | 12:11 pm
    Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Question of the day: Who is responsible for the obesity epidemic among children? My answer: Parents The food police would like to blame McDonald's and other fast food establishments, as evidenced by recent legislation in San Fransisco that bans fast food restaurants from giving away free toys with their meals.  But let's
 
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  • Chrome Users: Try the WordPress.com Extension

    Christopher Finke
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:54 pm
    Want to receive WordPress.com notifications instantly, even when you’re not on WordPress.com? Add the new WordPress.com extension for Chrome and as soon as you get a new follower or a new like on one of your posts, a notification will appear in your browser: Simply click the icon to view your latest WordPress.com notifications: Start following new blogs without visiting WordPress.com The Chrome extension also makes it easy to follow sites from your WordPress.com account by displaying a Follow button whenever you’re browsing a site that has an RSS feed. Clicking the Follow button…

  • Your Stats Have a New Home

    Andy Skelton
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:46 am
    Are you addicted to checking your site stats? You are not alone. The stats dashboard has always been one of the most popular admin screens. It’s gratifying to know that people are visiting your place online. With the WordPress.com front page evolving into a one-stop shop for posting, exploring, following and reading blogs, it seemed natural to put your blog stats there, too.  Stats are becoming more and more about interacting with your readers and other bloggers. You’ll still see your summary stats and chart on your main dashboard, and the full stats page in your dashboard will…

  • Reblogging is Back!

    Erica Johnson
    22 Jan 2012 | 1:27 pm
    As we mentioned last week, you can like and reblog posts directly from your reader, which displays a stream of all the updates published on all the blogs you follow from your WordPress.com account. We’ve also brought the reblog button back to the toolbar that appears at the top of the screen when you’re logged into WordPress.com. Note that you’ll only see the like and reblog options while you’re looking at individual posts. For example, you’ll see this on the left side of your toolbar while viewing http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/read-blogs: And your…

  • New Theme: Newsy

    Philip Arthur Moore
    20 Jan 2012 | 12:18 pm
    It’s been an extra big week in the news ’round these parts, so much so that the launch announcement of our latest premium theme seems like an extra extra good way to headline our Friday. Newsy is a versatile business and news-friendly theme that offers up to ten different layouts, four footer columns, custom link and accent colors, and a custom site header. Brand and content-focused editorial teams will love publishing with this theme. Newsy: Home Page Designed by Themify, Newsy comes with an impressive set of Theme Options that afford you a great deal of flexibility with how you…

  • Read All Your Favorite Blogs in One Place

    Erica Johnson
    19 Jan 2012 | 6:04 pm
    If you feel like it’s a chore to keep up with all your favorite blogs, you can now read posts from all the blogs you follow (even the ones that aren’t on WordPress.com!) in one convenient place on the WordPress.com home page: Your reader displays all the posts across all the blogs you follow in the order they were published, with the most recent content appearing at the top. You’ll see an excerpt of the introduction to each post, the first image in the post, and thumbnails of any other images that the post contains. You can even like and reblog WordPress.com content directly…
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  • Babies DON'T go free at the Olympics

    24 Jan 2012 | 5:58 pm
    Yay!Babies will be banned from the Olympics unless they have their own ticket - even if they were not conceived when their parents bought seats.2012 organiser Locog has said every child, including babies carried in their parents' arms, must have a ticket.AND it's upset moosnet - result!http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-olympics/article-24030578-babies-told-to-buy-a-ticket.do

  • Wrong on all levels.

    21 Jan 2012 | 12:58 pm
    A couple were given £7000 by the NHS for fertility treatment, after they made such a fuss about it that the NHS caved in and agreed to give them the funding. Also in the same area, a bloke in his 60s has been refused cancer treatment because it costs £3000 a go. WTF?The couple are also being featured on TV. I can't be the only one hoping the fertility treatment doesn't work...Hopefully the bloke who has been refused the cancer treatment and his family kick up a fuss and the NHS cave in to them as well. I doubt it.

  • 'Tamed' children are the norm?

    20 Jan 2012 | 3:43 am
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/19/are-obedient-children-a-good-thingCommence.Try not to bite yourself in rage. ;)

  • 'Pregnant women and young children were...'

    14 Jan 2012 | 10:44 pm
    Oh give it a rest FFS. I don't give a flying fuck if moos-in-progress and kids were there, they're no more important than anyone else.Capsized cruise ship

  • Another WTF????

    14 Jan 2012 | 2:24 am
    Foetus parties...are these people for real?????? http://www.independent.co...rties-trend-6289131.html
 
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  • Rick Santorum On FOX News Sunday: We Need To Increase Birth Rates

    16 Jan 2012 | 5:57 pm
    HuffPoSantorum defended himself against charges of social engineering and called criticism of his tax plan "outrageous.""This is not social engineering," he said. "What's social engineering is the policies of the last 30 years that have robbed the family of the support that they used to have in the tax code."On Saturday at a campaign stop in Charleston, Santorum also talked about his own children and how they have shaped his anti-abortion views. He told the crowd that his disabled daughter Bella, 3, made him realize that God looks upon him as "disabled.""The gift that Bella gave me was the…

  • Addressing Climate Change: Happily Child-Free

    7 Dec 2011 | 10:15 pm
    HuffPo Researchers have calculated that one additional U.S. child increases the lifetime carbon emissions legacy of either parent by nearly six times. Thus, not having children is by far the single greenest action any one of us can take, although the child-free choice is not usually green-motivated.If we are to hope for a humane human future, we must bring our populations down to a sustainable level, as we point out in our free online book, and this involves imagining just how joyful families of one or no children can be. The good news is that the process has already begun.Technorati Tag:…

  • Baby Surcharges? Child-Free Restaurants?

    2 Dec 2011 | 10:31 am
    Dining with kids can be a pleasure when they are well behaved and a hassle when they are not. Especially if you’re one table over. This summer a restaurant in Pennsylvania announced that it was banning children under the age of six. I’m totally against that – my 3 year old is just as well behaved in restaurants as my 6-year-old. But if I want a meal without the whining and seat kicking and even worse that goes on with some children, I expect a ban under the age of 12! In fact, I’m all for it. I see no reason at all that some restaurants shouldn’t be able to declare themselves…

  • The craving for a baby that drives women to the ultimate deception

    3 Nov 2011 | 5:27 pm
    Mail OnlineOf course, not every woman in my position would resort to extreme measures. But I do believe that any man who moves in with a woman in her late 30s or early 40s should take it as read that she will want to use them to procreate, by fair means or foul, no matter how much she protests otherwise.A 2001 survey revealed that 42 per cent of women would lie about using contraception in order to get pregnant in spite of their partners’ wishes.I'd comment, but I am dumbstruck by horror.Technorati Tag: childfree

  • 7 Billion Means You Can Stop Asking When I'm Having A Baby

    3 Nov 2011 | 4:12 pm
    HuffPoThe bottom line is that when we pressure women to have children, even if we are just innocently asking "when" it will happen, what we are really saying is that women aren't worth much without them. Men aren't asked this question incessantly. . . .The truth is, no one ever tells us that we might, actually, not regret living child-free. We might not regret being the best aunts ever while having most of our personal time to devote to a great marriage or several great relationships. We might not regret having the time and resources to travel frequently. We can save for retirement in such a…
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  • guinea pigs!

    31 Dec 2011 | 8:37 pm
    Herro everyone! I hope the holidays weren't awful to both the human and pet bits of your families. I come bearing questions.I am very, very seriously considering adopting two guinea pigs. I've been doing a lot of research and I believe that yes, I could give them what they need overall, and could be a great piggie parent. That said, I was hoping to pick the brains of anyone who either has/had piggies or similar small furry beings.Is there stuff that you won't find out no matter how much research you do? Besides things like their personalities, of course. Little problems that nobody talks…

  • Happy Holidays!

    24 Dec 2011 | 11:18 pm
    Duncan was told there'd be food for this:Ocho is sure there is something wrong with this many dogs on *his* couch, and Twist ALWAYS looks that stoned and rocks back on her pelvis like that on a "leave it".Chicken flavored Nylabones are a *huge* success with Ocho:Twist likes them too:Like many people around the world, I bought a spiffy new toy (three dogs = 4 new items at once, to prevent resource guarding), only to have the recipient totally dig the packaging more. *sigh* At least Duncan was happy."What? I like this one. it has a flavor."The reason Twist is standing…

  • I apologize for the crappy quality!

    9 Dec 2011 | 8:40 pm
    Meet Suzie! These were shot with my cell phone, and the lighting in some of them is bad... >.>

  • 24 Nov 2011 | 3:47 pm

    24 Nov 2011 | 3:47 pm
    In 9 days I am getting my first ever dogs - a couple of elderly King Charles Cavalier Blenheims.My sister (who has two small children) asked how this came about (they are 'rescue' dogs - ex breeding show bitches that are at retirement age) and as I told her, her eyes glazed over and she said;"Oh god, it is like listening to someone going on about their kids".I laughed and said she was correct. Except dogs are easier to train.

  • URGENT

    22 Nov 2011 | 10:58 am
    ETA: lj cutOriginally posted by kylecassidy at postVia Citykitties A good samaritan found this cat today in a gutter by Clark Park, half dead. He is now at the Cat Doctor with a body temperature of 90 (normal is 102) and blood PCV of 8. The Cat Doctor housecat, Diamond, is currently donating blood to save his life. During the exam, the vet found that this cat has a microchip. When called, his "owners" reported that he was acting sick, so they put him outside. If this makes you as angry as it makes us, please channel your anger in one of two ways: visit our website at www.citykitties.org and…
 
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  • Facebook’s COO Sandberg: A Symbol of New Wave of Feminism?

    Laura
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:27 am
    The San Francisco  Chronicle recently had an interesting piece on Facebook‘s Chief Operating Officer (COO), Sheryl Sandberg.  Named Forbes magazine 5th most powerful woman in the world and Fortune‘s 12th most powerful women in business, Stanford leadership/organizational behavior professor Deborah Gruenfeld says Sandberg has become “a symbol of a new wave of feminism.”  Take a closer look. Gruenfeld explains this new wave as one in which women can finally “own their own power by just being women, where you don’t have to see that as totally incompatible.

  • Beyond the Baby Bump: Birth is Big Business

    Laura
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:22 am
    A  recent article in Time magazine, “The 1% Birth. Why baby Beyonces are little profit center for hospitals” struck me as an example of the power of pronatalism. Why?  Birth is big business…and particularly “luxe” birth. Get this.  As the article says,  the  birth business is “worth more than $30 billion a year”–and “limousine labor,” that includes things such as total room redecoration, birth teams with massage therapists, chefs and more are not just for the Beyonce celebrity births. The 1% likes the first class treatment too,…

  • Rethinking What It Means to be Childless & Childless by Circumstance

    Laura
    20 Jan 2012 | 5:35 pm
    Reading “The Grief of Childlessness” by Samantha Schoech got me thinking about how we’ve come to commonly define “childless “and “childless by circumstance.”  Who are the childless? Typically we are talking about those who want biological children…. …but have not been able to have them.  Then there are the “childless by circumstance”-those, who as far as they know, can have biological children, but are choosing not to have them because the circumstances are not right, such as not have a spouse, wanting to further one’s…

  • Back on Childfree Travel: Add this Place to your List!

    Laura
    17 Jan 2012 | 9:13 am
    I am on a road trip down the California coast, and one of the towns I visited for the first time in years is worthy of mention as a place you’re not likely to share your visit with many kids… Carmel. What a charming little town, and one of the best little stretches of beaches in California, in my humble opinion. Here are just three must do’s in Carmel: 1. The obvious–walk a good stretch of the beach, or do the whole thing. It is not that long. On the north end you will have the backdrop of the famous golf course here (if you are into that). Going south, it’s…

  • Case In Point: Why Accepting the Childfree Choice is Still on the Uphill Climb

    Laura
    13 Jan 2012 | 8:16 am
    Last year Grist did a piece on why the childfree had finally gone mainstream.  I had to disagree. While this choice is talked about more than ever before, it’s not hit mainstream acceptance by a long shot.  One big reason? Religion.  This “Happily Childfree” post by a Catholic medical student is a sure reminder of how certain religions will always stand in the way… Take a moment to read his post (it’s not long.) Here are just two conservative Christian ways of thinking she talks about that reflect unshakable views of the childfree: The childfree fear…
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  • Facebook’s COO Sandberg: A Symbol of New Wave of Feminism?

    Laura
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:27 am
    The San Francisco  Chronicle recently had an interesting piece on Facebook‘s Chief Operating Officer (COO), Sheryl Sandberg.  Named Forbes magazine 5th most powerful woman in the world and Fortune‘s 12th most powerful women in business, Stanford leadership/organizational behavior professor Deborah Gruenfeld says Sandberg has become “a symbol of a new wave of feminism.”  Take a closer look. Gruenfeld explains this new wave as one in which women can finally “own their own power by just being women, where you don’t have to see that as totally incompatible.

  • Beyond the Baby Bump: Birth is Big Business

    Laura
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:22 am
    A  recent article in Time magazine, “The 1% Birth. Why baby Beyonces are little profit center for hospitals” struck me as an example of the power of pronatalism. Why?  Birth is big business…and particularly “luxe” birth. Get this.  As the article says,  the  birth business is “worth more than $30 billion a year”–and “limousine labor,” that includes things such as total room redecoration, birth teams with massage therapists, chefs and more are not just for the Beyonce celebrity births. The 1% likes the first class treatment too,…

  • Rethinking What It Means to be Childless & Childless by Circumstance

    Laura
    20 Jan 2012 | 5:35 pm
    Reading “The Grief of Childlessness” by Samantha Schoech got me thinking about how we’ve come to commonly define “childless “and “childless by circumstance.”  Who are the childless? Typically we are talking about those who want biological children…. …but have not been able to have them.  Then there are the “childless by circumstance”-those, who as far as they know, can have biological children, but are choosing not to have them because the circumstances are not right, such as not have a spouse, wanting to further one’s…

  • Back on Childfree Travel: Add this Place to your List!

    Laura
    17 Jan 2012 | 9:13 am
    I am on a road trip down the California coast, and one of the towns I visited for the first time in years is worthy of mention as a place you’re not likely to share your visit with many kids… Carmel. What a charming little town, and one of the best little stretches of beaches in California, in my humble opinion. Here are just three must do’s in Carmel: 1. The obvious–walk a good stretch of the beach, or do the whole thing. It is not that long. On the north end you will have the backdrop of the famous golf course here (if you are into that). Going south, it’s…

  • Case In Point: Why Accepting the Childfree Choice is Still on the Uphill Climb

    Laura
    13 Jan 2012 | 8:16 am
    Last year Grist did a piece on why the childfree had finally gone mainstream.  I had to disagree. While this choice is talked about more than ever before, it’s not hit mainstream acceptance by a long shot.  One big reason? Religion.  This “Happily Childfree” post by a Catholic medical student is a sure reminder of how certain religions will always stand in the way… Take a moment to read his post (it’s not long.) Here are just two conservative Christian ways of thinking she talks about that reflect unshakable views of the childfree: The childfree fear…
 
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