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Mominatrix
Mominatrix reviews the HBO show Hung.
By Kristen Chase
These days, parents don't have to peruse the stacks of DVDs at their local sex shops or corrupt their hard drive with downloads upon downloads of porn to add a little spice to their decidedly bland bedrooms.
Sure, if you want to watch some chick get...read more |
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What's the Matter With Mommy?
Helicopter Parent Magazine
By Kelley Cunningham
Never out of sight, nor out of mind.
“OK, listen up everyone. We’re here to plan the next issue. What have you got?”
“I’ve got this submission. Should be a good one. It’s from a 'family bed' mom who is agonizing...read more |
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Home/Office
To Work or Not to Work, That Is the Question. Again.
By Dana Tuszke
Now that I'm half-way through my pregnancy, people are getting more daring about asking personal questions. I understand the curiosity. Everyone wants to know what we're having (a boy), what name we've chosen (not telling) and whether or not Dawson, our...read more |
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Home/Office
Give Me Back My Groove
By Dana Tuszke
You know that feeling you get when you're on top of your game, the bliss you experience whey you know you're managing every part of your life (work, marriage, parenting, housework, etc.) successfully? Yeah, that feeling. You remember that,...read more |
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While Mom's @ Work
The Napkin of Shame
By Chag Holland
I guess I was about thirteen years old when I discovered my parents had made a drastic change: they had morphed from loving, doting parents to aliens who had traded in their plans for world domination for a complex scheme to fully embarrass me every time...read more |
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Home/Office
Didn't we almost have it all?
By Dana Tuszke
A few weeks ago my son had his first "snow day" of the school year. Granted, he's only in preschool, but he was still excited that he got to stay home and hang out with his mom. As luck would have it, I didn't have to work that day and little...read more |
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Growing Pains
Take a Parent, Add Politics and Mix
By Elizabeth Thompson
This is my favorite picture of my parents – it was taken shortly after their engagement in 1963 – and is a perfect depiction of a young couple, living in America, at that time.
Except, they weren't American citizens.
My parents...read more |
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Growing Pains
Old Ghosts
By Elizabeth Thompson
I love watching scary movies - especially, at this time of year - but, I’m not talking about the slice and dice slasher films, where the body count is higher than the I.Q. of the teenagers prancing around half-naked in them.
“Just don’t...read more |
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Mominatrix
Daddy, what are you doing to Mommy?
By Kristen Chase
All’s fair with love and sex until that wee one you produced after long months of robotic sex or that one drunken unmemorable screw is old enough to walk in on you doing the dirty deed.
Here’s hoping you’ve been putting aside money...read more |
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Home/Office
Back to Life, Back to Reality
By Dana Tuszke
Summer is almost over. The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting darker and many parents are ready to get back to reality. Ready to send their kids back to the life of text books, loose leaf paper and sharpened pencils.
I don't know if I'm...read more |
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Home/Office
Work is a Four Letter Word. So is Jose.
By Dana Tuszke
If you've ever worked in a busy office, you know that phones are constantly ringing, fax machines are incessantly beeping and the click-clack of keyboard typing fills every moment of potential silence. It's enough to drive a person to drink (after work...read more |
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Home/Office
They Say That Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
By Dana Tuszke
Just after I lost my job, one of my closest friends took it upon herself to call me anytime a position became available at the company she works for. Since I have a background with insurance sales, and my friend works for an insurance company as a claims...read more |
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Home/Office
All is Fair in Love and Work?
By Dana Tuszke
It's Valentine's Day, the holiday in which lover's express their love for each other (according to Wikipedia), typically with flowers, chocolate and romantic dinners at fancy restaurants, not always in that order of course.
But for those who aren't...read more |
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Not Your Average Fairy Tale
Sex Education. Lesbian Style.
By Melissa Doak
I was only five years old when my brother was born. It was my mother’s growing belly that prompted my questions about where babies come from. My mother gave me both more information than I needed, as a kindergartner, and less. Really, I think some...read more |
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Rugrat Reprieve
It Takes a City and a State
By Rachael Brownell
We are grandparent rich in my house. What with the remarriages and divorces and remarriages and reconfigurations, we’re a regular people soup of a family. While I occasionally still feel guilty that I wasn’t able to keep everything all nuclear...read more |
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Home/Office
Momstumes
By Dana Tuszke
With Halloween just around the corner, I got to thinking about costumes. Dawson is dressing up as a UPS man and he anxiously awaits carrying his bright orange pumpkin bucket so he can ring our neighbors' doorbells and exclaim, "Trick or treeeaaat!"...read more |
| Category: Parenting |
Dating the Preschool Parents
What should I wear?
By Juliet Johnson
I wanted my son Nathan to have friends. Whom he likes, I must like. Nathan would do anything to have Michael play with him. His version of trying to play with Michael is to stand next to me and hold my leg. But I know how desperate he is. If it’s...read more |
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Imperfections
I wanted to give birth to a teenager.
By Jessica Carlson
Ten little toesey-woesies and finger-wingers. That baby smell and the smallish clothes.
Save it for baby huggers and those who flip into an embarrassing baby-entertaining persona, which comes with contorted faces and high pitch squeals. I was born to...read more |
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Growing Pains
Remembering "The Old Country" in a whole new way
By Elizabeth Thompson
My father and mother have been living in the United States for over 50 years -- they escaped Hungary during the Revolution of 1956 -- but, often times still like to refer to their homeland as “the old country.”
You see, on our street, everyone...read more |
