My Parents Were Awesome collects photos of people’s parents when they were still young and child-free. Celebrate your folks’ youth and vitality before you came along and ruined it all.
Parents
The failed partnership of work and families
Gaby Hinsliff was political editor of the Observer, the Sunday sister paper of The Guardian, until she finally gave up MP interviews to be a full time mother. An honest look at the work/life balance mess that parents — even those in exciting, fulfilling careers — are struggling to cope with.
Mothers are the only parents that matter, right?
When it comes to parenting, it’s mothers that score the brunt of the criticism, the longer jail terms for neglectful parenting and the media scorn. What, because men have traditionally been absent, expectations are low?
The A-B-C of parent advertising: Always Bright Colours
Advertising aimed at parents revolves primarily around cutesy cartoon images, like Winnie the Pooh on nappies. Why do marketers assume that having a child makes parents become infantile too?
Childhood memories published for all to see
How will the increase in confessional ‘bad’ mum and dad memoirs affect their children in future years? What does it say about the parents?
6.30-7.30pm: f%$#! o’clock for every mother
I want a reality TV show where mothers and children unceremoniously evict these late-night meeting moles from their cheese platter world of adult-child apartheid, writes Liz Conor.
Essay: Whatever happened to moral leadership?
Prosperity is not enough. People are comforted knowing the economy is doing well, but they also see the long run of economic security as somehow sapping our morale, writes Denis Muller.
Filtering through the BS in election year
Let me see, which countries use ISP or country level filtering? China … Saudi Arabia … Thailand … Kazakhstan … Georgia … Iran … Sudan … Malaysia … Tunisia … Uzbekistan… Belarus. Yes, there’s a set of countries I aspire to join. Intellectual property expert Kimberlee Weatherall weighs in at LawFont.
