by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 20, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Sure, there’s a little jest implied to my little series’ titles: What Do Feminist Toddlers Wear and What Do Feminist Preschoolers Wear? Obviously, I can’t determine how my children eventually define feminism, or whether they decide they...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 22, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Certain principles seem to require a lot of reminding about. One is perfectly contained in a favorite picture book series of mine (sadly, out of print, but still possible to find a copy here or there) about Edward the Unready (a bear, penned and illustrated by the...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 24, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Wriggling into her bathing suit in the bathroom at the Y this week, Saskia said, “I like this bathing suit. It’s kind of like a bra.” To wit, my girl likes bras. ** Also, she likes bling—a lot. (Pouting mouth thanks to yellow pepper.)...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 27, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
It wasn’t our best weekend. Nothing earth-shatteringly terrible happened, but we experienced discord of the teenage angst-meets-parents variety. You could put many words to this, not pretty words, either. Perhaps, because we’re raising a preschooler too,...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jan 29, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
I really wanted Demi to be the winner, by which I mean I wanted her marriage to her much younger spouse to be a keeper. My reasoning was politically incorrect: he wasn’t so much older than her daughters and so, actually, ick; if the situation had turned the...
