Entries Tagged as 'paycheck'

Shared parenting

June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Surely this is all over the parenting blogsophere, but if you haven’t read it, check out this article on shared parenting. And if you are inclined, weigh in on the discussion about the article taking place in the TucsonMama forums.

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Tags: community · gender stuff · paycheck · politics · relationships

B-I-N-G-O

January 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Prudence commented on this below, but we wanted to spread the word about Presidential Bingo
 This is from Moms Rising:
PLAY PRESIDENTIAL BINGO WITH US!  Break out the popcorn, gather ’round your youngins’ and turn on the TV!  We’ve made a great MomsRising Presidential Bingo card for you and yours to print & play while watching the [...]

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Tags: Other Mothers · community · gender stuff · paycheck

Families Rising

January 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments

This is a letter from MomsRising about a new, affliated organization, FamiliesRising:
Dear MomsRising Member,
On Father’s Day last year we launched FamiliesRising.org, a mirror webspace that provides a venue for Dads, Grandparents, and anyone who doesn’t feel Momly to connect with the issues we are working on–because frankly our issues are family issues.  We’ve got some [...]

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Tags: babies · community · gender stuff · paycheck · politics

Choices

November 26th, 2007 · 6 Comments

an essay on working and parenting, from Heidi, a twentysomething TucsonMama:
Compared to most of the college-educated mothers I know in Tucson, at age 25 I am considered young. Aside from the nervous glances I got at the OB’s office–even though I was 23 when I was pregnant I looked like I was 16–I don’t feel [...]

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Tags: babies · essays · gender stuff · paycheck

Paychecks

November 13th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Sunday’s AZ Daily Star had an article about Vini Nunez, a stay-at-home dad–a rare species nationwide (fewer than 3% of stay-at-home parents nationwide are dads, according to the US Census Bureau). Nunez described his state of isolation, his desire to connect with other SAHDs, and acknowledged that sometimes he had to defend his family’s choices [...]

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Tags: essays · paycheck · politics