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Wednesday 5: The Best of Internet this Week

By Women's Voices For Change

A look at the "perfect" (quotation marks intentional) woman's body over the past 100 years; The Onion.com posits, in a parody, the dismay of increasing number of men pressured to accept realistic standards of female beauty; and a video explores what happens when men realize they are harassing their own mothers on the street; a mom explores why "good moms" get hated on.

Lifestyle

Parenting Is a Joke

By Roz Warren

Thanks to Twitter, when an amateur comic who is also a parent cracks a good joke, the world listens! And if you need a good laugh, you should, too. Check out this sampling of the best wit, wisdom, and wisecracks from "The Big Book of Parenting Tweets."

Money & Careers

Two More Words About Derek Jeter: His Mom

By Women's Voices For Change

We at Women’s Voices for Change tip our caps to a woman who got it so very right. The applause was for her son, but the cheers were for her, too.

Emotional Health · Health

She’s Young (14!) and Sexually Active: Dr. Ford Counsels Her Distraught Mother

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

There is no strong consensus in our culture anymore about standards of behavior. While some kids have always violated social norms when it comes to early sexuality, at least they knew what the norms were. Today’s parents don’t make it clear enough where they stand on this issue.

Family & Friends · Lifestyle

Happiness Is a Big Loud Garbage Truck, and Other Tales

By Roz Warren

Babysitting is so cool that I often wonder why more empty-nesters don’t try it as a second career.

Books · Family & Friends

Second Read: “Sh*t My Dad Says” is for Moms

By Laura Baudo Sillerman

If you are a mother, run, don’t walk, to the nearest bookstore (or e-tail outlet or downloading device) to get Justin Halpern’s "Sh*t My Dad Says." If you are a mother of mothers, do the same.

Family & Friends · Lifestyle

For This Mom’s Summer, the Stars Moved

By Phyllis Fanzo Lombardi

My son comes home tomorrow from his summer holiday — one that has already made this a very different kind of summer. Summer can mean so many things: a new wardrobe, a new job, a new semester, vacations, camp, slower schedules. For most, it’s the end to the school year. Kids are happy. Parents? Well, a mixed swirl of emotion,…

News

MTA’s Helena Williams Moves Eight Million a Day and Still Cooks Sunday Pasta

By Diane Vacca

Very little media fanfare greeted the May appointment of Helena Williams as interim CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, which moves millions of people a day on dozens of interlocking transit systems. At WVFC, though, we knew there had to be something special about a 53-year-old woman who just adds such a gig to her then-current job running the…

Family & Friends · Lifestyle

Mothering Art: The Art of Mothering

By Evelyn Leya

by Leya Evelyn With my breasts aching and full of milk, I left Tamar, my three-week old baby girl, with a sitter and attended the opening reception of the Washington Area Artists Exhibition at the Corcoran Museum of Art. After leaving school, I lived in Washington for the first year of marriage. This was a juried show, and I was…

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Wednesday 5: The Best of Internet this Week

Parenting Is a Joke

Two More Words About Derek Jeter: His Mom

She’s Young (14!) and Sexually Active: Dr. Ford Counsels Her Distraught Mother

Happiness Is a Big Loud Garbage Truck, and Other Tales

Second Read: “Sh*t My Dad Says” is for Moms

For This Mom’s Summer, the Stars Moved

MTA’s Helena Williams Moves Eight Million a Day and Still Cooks Sunday Pasta

Mothering Art: The Art of Mothering

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