Month: January 2009

• Tickle Me Emo (from the Momplex Blog archives)

  When my daughter was a toddler, a dad once joked to me at a Musikgarten class that he could picture her as a teenager: dressed entirely in black and writing angry poetry in a corner somewhere. As she sulked in a beanbag away from the glee-fest of triangle-banging among the other children, I laughed and…

  Jenny

  January 26, 2009

  daughters, general mockery, humor, mood issues, preschoolers

• Suck It, La Leche League (from the Momplex Blog archives)

  My breasts are founts of liquid gold. At least La Leche League thinks so, and my baby boy seems convinced. Perhaps that’s why I love breastfeeding. When nothing else is going right with the baby stuff, breastfeeding buoys us. Even if I can’t figure out the source of a given problem, nursing almost always works,…

  Jenny

  January 1, 2009

  babies, breastfeeding, mood issues, motherhood