Saturday Surfing

Finds of the Week: 21 Images of Where Children Sleep Around the World Paints a Powerful Picture of Inequality, Policy Mic — Just, wow…and sad. General Mills: Original Cheerios are GMO free, CNN — Toddlers rejoice…now if only the rest of their cereals could follow suit ILCA Calls on AAP to Sever Commercial Relationships that…

Finds of the Week: 8 New Punctuation Marks We Desperately Need, College Humor — to start things off on an amusing note. Food Policy Action — The 2013 National Food Policy Scorecard ranks each member of the Senate and House on their votes on food issues.  Wyoming legislators fail.  How do your legislators do?  (hat tip, Marion Nestle)…

Finds of the Week: By Focusing on the Opt-Outers, We Are Ignoring the Real Issues with Common Core, Slate  — “we should all give a little more thought to how the new testing push is affecting people like Tiffany, a young woman from Queens who wants to be a nurse, but still lacks a high school diploma…

Finds of the Week Baby on Board, Bicycling — a bicycle trip with a one year old.  “I marveled that this was the same day I thought the three of us were going to die of dehydration. I sunk my spoon into some blackberry sorbet, and thought about how pushing limits—no matter what the ­limits…

I think I might need to change my graphic considering how infrequently I actually get this posted on Saturday…but, I just like it and of course, I always have good intentions to post on Saturdays.  🙂 Anyway, here are some of my recent-ish finds: Have American Parents Got It All Backwards?, Huffington Post  — a…

Finds of the Week: ‘Crack baby’ study ends with unexpected but clear result, The Philadelphia Inquirer — It turns out that in-utero exposure to crack is significantly less harmful to children than is poverty From our 2006 archives: Why I no longer believe babies should cry themselves to sleep, the Globe and Mail — “When…

Finds of the Last (where are we…three?) Weeks: ‘A Beautiful Body’ Book Project: Jade Beall, Photographer, Celebrates Mothers’ Real Bodies (PHOTOS), Huffington Post — beautiful photos celebrating the less than “perfect” bodies of mothers. A Daddy’s Letter to his Little Girl About Her Future Husband, Viral Nova — Just wonderful. Former Insurance Exec Offers An…

Finds of the Week: The Barbeque, Huffington Post — a wonderful piece about love and marriage. The Hidden Risk of Epidurals, Mothering — A leading Australian physician discusses how this invasive procedure actually impedes labor and harms both mother and baby. If Obesity is the Disease Then Why is My Child Diagnosed the Healthy Eater?, Homemade…

Finds of the Week: After Newtown shooting, mourning parents enter into the lonely quiet, Washington Post — this is beautifully and heartbreakingly written, and brought me to tears…all we can do is send our love and get that gun legislation moving!! A queen’s message to girls: More than tiaras and cupcakes, CNN World — a…

I was so going to write this post on time and then I decided last night that it would be much better to curl up in bed with Zara for just an hour or two…and then the next thing I knew, it was 8:30 in the morning — which means that for the first time…