August 2013 - Motherlode - The Network of Care

Fertility Diary: Baby Envy

These are the days of ugly emotions. Infertility hijacks your schedule, damages your relationship with your spouse and unleashes in you terrible jealousy of other women, women who conceive easily. Read More...

Published Wed, Aug 07 2013 1:31 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: infertility, _featured

As Preschool Looms, Potty-Training Season Ramps Up

Parents all over the country are fighting the good fight, ditching the diapers and pushing the potty, all in the name of compliance with that common mandate: no bladder control, no preschool. Read More...

Published Mon, Aug 19 2013 6:34 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, diapers, Children and Childhood, Education (Pre-School), Bathrooms and Toilets

‘Leaning In’ to Lego Camp

I asked the camp counselors to make sure Lego camp worked for my outnumbered daughter. "She doesn't want boys taking over her project. She doesn't want to fight to be heard." Read More...

Published Mon, Aug 05 2013 12:11 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, toys, Women and Girls, Lego Group, Sandberg, Sheryl K, Engineering and Engineers

What We Spend to Raise a Child — and What We Don’t

Higher income parents spend more on nearly every item with a discretionary component. That adds up to Montessori instead of in-home day care, houses in stronger school districts, and more money spent on activities, travel, and other miscellany that the...

Published Thu, Aug 15 2013 10:57 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Children and Childhood, Education (K-12), Personal Finances, Income

The Price of Urban Family Living

After plugging our information into the Economic Policy Institute's budget calculator, I was stunned. The rent estimate was half what we pay, the grocery stipend looked like a typo, and the child-care cost was a fantasy. Read More...

Published Wed, Aug 07 2013 7:31 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Child Care, parenting, Children and Childhood, Budgets and Budgeting, Families and Family Life, Berkeley (Calif), Economic Policy Institute

Readers Comment on ‘Modern Mothers’ Turn to Scratch an Itch’

Share your thoughts on the reversal of traditional summer gender roles that one mother, riding the train from the city to her husband and children upstate, called "'Mad Men' flashed forward into the future," here. Read More...

Published Fri, Aug 16 2013 4:48 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized

Toddlers, Ants and Crumbs: Calling the Bug Lady

We have a toddler, we have crumbs and we have ants. Lots of ants. We suspect the Wensinks are becoming “that ant family” to our friends. Read More...

Published Wed, Aug 14 2013 12:45 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Children and Childhood, Ants, Insects

Subsidized Child Care: For the Poor, By the Poor

In-home family child-care providers often make it possible for minimum-wage parents to go to work, but don't always make minimum wage themselves. Read More...

Published Tue, Aug 13 2013 11:48 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Child Care, parenting, Children and Childhood, Labor and Jobs, Minimum Wage

The Kid-Friendly Brunch Becomes a Kid Takeover

My friends' children are welcome guests in my house — but being welcome doesn't mean hogging the chairs, the food and the spotlight. Read More...

Published Fri, Aug 09 2013 9:06 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Children and Childhood, Parties (Social), Customs, Etiquette and Manners

After the Opt-Out Revolution, Asking: How’s That Working for You?

For women who stepped away from their career in order to spend more time at home with their family, there may be few fairy tales, but there's little real regret. Read More...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2013 8:18 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, new york times, Women and Girls, Careers and Professions, Work-Life Balance, Warner, Judith, Belkin, Lisa

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