200608 – Assateague – 208487707_4fe3514d91_o – ponies – 2 of them Originally uploaded by ClintJCL. I have a hate hate relationship with sand so I was somewhat reluctant to go on our camping trip this past weekend to Assategue National Park but I’m glad I did. After many delays, like needing a new master cylinder…
Category: Kids
Hasbro Shelves Pussycat Dolls!
May 24, 2006 – Today, Hasbro announced that they were canceling their planned line of dolls based on the Pussycat Dolls. Thanks so much to all of you who sent letters – it was your efforts that made the difference. Click here for more information on Hasbro’s decision. Thank GOD! The origial call to action…
The woman sitting on the plane next to BW may have surfaced.
A woman, R, posted to a DC mothers list serv claiming that she may be the one that offended BW on a flight from New York to DC. The text of her post was reposted with permission on a Brooklyn Blog. She is the manager of a financial firm in South Africa. I think that…
Missing the point
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-brooks9jun09,0,2939207.story In a commentary in the LA Times Rosa Brooks an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Law tells ‘lactavists’ to chill out. She goes on to state that she nursed her two children until they were 6 months old. Great! She then starts in on how hard it is to hold…
Cowards
Yesterday on The View the nurse-in was talked about breifly and BW also called in to “clarify” the situation. (see my post below). Merideth, one of the hosteses, stated that they would “latch on to the issue tomorrow”. Well I Tivod today’s episode and there was NO mention of the nurse in or the topic…
The controversy continues
I would first like to say that the quote of Barbara Walters saying that breastfeeding is “gross and discusting” which I got from the press release for the nurse in is not accurate. BW called into The View yesterday to say that she totally supports breastfeeding and it does not make her uncomfortable and that the story…
New York Nurse In
A nurse-in was held today today at ABC studios across the county to protest comments made by Barbara Walters and the general anti-breastfeeding attitude of the hosts of “The View”. In New York the protesters nursed their children outside of ABC headquarters just a few blocks from where “The View” is filmed. The protest was…