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TV Characters are Getting Into Politics
In the recent documentary Miss Representation — which criticized American culture and the media for its negative impact on women and girls — child advocate Marian Wright Edelman lamented the scarcity of American women politicians saying that, “You can’t be what you can’t see.”
Book Review: Father’s Day
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It’s Time for American Parents to Redefine “Fun”
The New York Times parenting bloggerhad it right when she wrote that, in order for American parents to have fun during their non-working hours, they need to redefine the word as were seeing large hunks of our time commandeered
Book Corner: Parenting in Print
The first one took me along a darkened, twisty trail as girls became teenagers rebelling against their parents and wrestling with own personal demons, as teens became twentysomethings who still needed their own mothers, to women becoming mothers themselves (or wanna-be mothers) who struggled with their own rocky childhoo
Is Being First Lady the Worst Job in the World?
After I finished reading the New York Times bestselling book, The Obamas, by Times reporter Jodi Kantor, I came to this not-so-pretty conclusion: It sucks to be the first lady.