Saturday Surfing
A collection of links and images from around the web that interest and inspire me. Ideally published weekly.
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Sunday Surfing
📍 WyomingI didn’t get a chance to put this up yesterday, which I’d like to claim was because I was catching up on emails or cleaning house or being otherwise productive, but instead I’ll admit it was because I was finishing up season three of my latest discovery and love, Downton Abbey. I can’t believe I…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 WyomingFinds of the Week: Assortment — A new blog I discovered about a family of five living in 665 square feet 27 Awesome Vintage Photos of Moms, Mental Floss — Love the pictures of moms and kids from long, long ago. And, I really want that 1926 stroller/bicycle. Dirty Diaper Laundry’s 3rd Annual Flats and Handwashing…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 WyomingFinds of the Week: Elizabeth Smart Says Pro-Abstinence Sex Ed Harms Victims of Rape, Slate’s XXfactor — Exactly what the headline says; she argues that abstinence only education which teaches girls they have more value as virgins can cause them to feel worthless and without value after they are raped Go naked: diapers affect infant…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 WyomingI know it’s not Saturday — not even close, actually, since there’s barely any Sunday left to speak of, but there are somethings I have been saving all week to share and I’m going to just pretend I got around to doing this yesterday and share them. So here we go with some finds of…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 WyomingFinds of the Week: Breast Pumps in Jail: Kudos to Taos!, Sustainable Mothering — A County jail in New Mexico is providing accommodations for a breastfeeding mother to pump her breasts every few hours and have the product picked up by a family member for her four month old daughter. Awesome! (There’s a video from a news report…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 WyomingFinds of the Week: Association Between State Laws Governing School Meal Nutrition Content and Student Weight Status Implications for New USDA School Meal Standards, JAMA Pediatrics — Newly released study found that stricter school lunch regulation has better health outcomes for kids. Living With Less. A Lot Less., NY Times– An essay by Graham Hill,…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 WyomingPart of getting back into my blogging routine (thanks to me getting a few extra hours each night while Zara sleeps) is me having a chance to catch up on both my online reading and my online sharing. I’m hoping to get back to doing weekly Saturday Surfing posts, but we’ll see how that…
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Saturday Surfing
It’s still Saturday somewhere, right? Here are some finds from the last (few) week(s): 3 Feeding Interactions and How They Influence Child Obesity, Fooducate — How (not) to feed our kids The Reality Of Reality May Not Be Reality, NPR — A philosophical look at existance through the lens of the matrix. Bloom for Christmas,…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: Building a Breastfeeding Culture, Breastfeeding Medicine — A look at what it takes for mothers to breastfeed successfully. “To change a behavior, an individual needs to answer two questions: “Is it worth it?” and “Can I do it?” Too often, in breastfeeding, we stop with one question, and then wonder why our…
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Saturday Surfing + Day Three
Finds of the Week: Background Television in the Homes of US Children, Pediatrics — New study which found that the average US child was exposed to 232.2 minutes (nearly 4 hours!) of background television on a typical day, which has been found to have negative consequences on child development. I was shocked by how big that number…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: Changing Two Lives, Then the World, NY Times — a heartbreaking story of Modern Love written by a soldier serving in Afghanistan. Exhaustion is not a status symbol, Washington Post — An interview with University of Houston professor Brené Brown on how today’s workplace and our work culture too often hinders our pursuit of a…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: Fostering Self-Directed Play: ten tips to help pre-schoolers entertain themselves, Loving Earth Mama — I liked this mama’s take on getting kids to play on their own better and longer. Hospitals Ditch Formula Samples to Promote Breast-Feeding, NY Times — Another look at formula samples in hospital take-home bags How often…
