Children are minimal this episode, but it nonetheless touches on one of the great arts of parenting: hiding parts of a conversation from your kids. “I’ve missed you,” Paige tells Shane as they sit at a table with Paige’s ten-year-old son Jared. “And I’ve missed our, um . . . our, um story time. That […]
Showtime has announced it has ordered a fifth season of The L Word, promising us lots more of the lovely ladies in Los Angeles. Because I’ve been writing a series that reviews The L Word from a parenting perspective, I thought it would be appropriate to acknowledge Season Five with a song about the letter
“I’m his father. Any court will look favorably on that.” (Warning: spoilers below.) So says Shane’s ne’er-do-well father Gabe, who has reappeared from nowhere after running out on his family at the end of Season Three. Gabe wants to take back his son, Shane’s nine-year-old brother Shay, whom Shay has been parenting for some months
Confessions of the Other Mother: Non-Biological Lesbian Moms Tell All, a collection of essays exploring the many facets of non-biological parenthood, is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in the Anthology category. Lesbian-parent bloggers Robin Reagler and Polly Pagenhart are among the contributors. Congratulations to them, editor Harlyn Aizley, and the rest of the
Today is the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Cat in the Hat. To honor the occasion, the National Education Association is sponsoring a National Read-Aloud of The Cat in the Hat as part of its Read Across America program. They encourage people to read the book at 2:36 p.m. EST today, in recognition
The common thread in the parenting narratives this week is time. Children show that Bette and Jodi have been spending time, Helena and Catherine have no time, Shane and Paige are trying to find the time, and Shane’s dad has bad timing. (Warning: spoilers below.)
Melissa Etheridge can now add an Academy Award to her two Grammys. She won the “Best Original Song” Oscar last night for “I Need to Wake Up,” the theme song to An Inconvenient Truth. (You can purchase and download the “I Need to Wake Up” song or video from iTunes here.) The television coverage showed
(Originally published in Bay Windows, February 22, 2007.) One of the ways I judge a children’s book is by how much it captures my son’s imagination. After we read The Different Dragon, he made me run around the house with a blanket over my head, flapping it like dragon’s wings, while he pretended to be
(Minor spoilers below.) Shane is livin’ la vida loco parentis this week. Her nine-year-old brother Shay and his friend Jared got into a fight with some kids who teased them about their moms being gay. Shane goes with Jared’s mother Paige to meet with the school principal, and they argue that the school must teach
The venerable paper had a number of articles of interest yesterday: “With One Word, Children’s Book Sets Off Uproar“: This year’s Newbery Medal-winning book, The Higher Power of Lucky, contains the word “scrotum” in it. It’s in reference to a dog who gets bitten on that rather tender piece of his anatomy, but some parents
