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A post from DoubleX Staff:
I know what they say, that holidays are occasions to revisit family
stress. Many a great novel and movie has been built on this premise.
And in general, I would say it's true. The Jewish holidays are all
about starving and yelling. Vacations involve too much childcare. But
for me, Thanksgiving is the blissful ...
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A post from DoubleX writer KJ Dell'Antonia:
Time magazine's ''Can These Parents Be Saved?'' story
offers a glorious rundown of the rampant possibilities for
overparenting that have become available in recent years. From kid
leashes (''Kinderkords'') to fears about kindergarden
''pencil-holding-deficiency,'' the opportunities ...
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A post from DoubleX writer Kerry Howley:
Yoga is a meditative practice sometimes thought to help liberate the
soul from all worldly suffering. The Olympics are a tribalistic
sporting event in which nation states battle to produce impressive
feats of human athleticism. ...
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A guest post from Cindy Pearson, the executive director of the National Women's Health Network:
Mammography screening just doesn’t work very well in women before menopause, as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has now recognized.
Everyone hoped that it would. But in 1993, it became clear from
well-done studies that our hopes hadn’t ...
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A post from DoubleX writer KJ Dell'Antonia:
Politico.com reports
that days after husband Mark Sanford admitted to having an affair,
Jenny Sanford filed an application to trademark her name for use in
''product merchandising to be sold at online retail store featuring
clothing, mugs and other household items; stickers, decals, ...
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A post from DoubleX writer Amanda Marcotte:
If you're interested in reading a refreshing burst of honesty today, you could do worse than Aaron Traister's piece
about the different reactions he received from people when he told them
he was expecting a son and when he told them, a couple years later,
that he was expecting a daughter. Americans ...
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A post from DoubleX intern Jessica Dweck:
In an Onion-esque piece of news this week, the New York Times reported
that Justice Anthony Kennedy ordered a student newspaper to “tidy up”
its coverage of his recent appearance at a high school assembly.
Kennedy, an ardent protector of First Amendment rights—and apparently,
irony–allowed the ...
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A post from DoubleX Staff:
This morning, I told my kids about the no complaining project, pledged
to try it—and then promptly launched into a description of an expense
form I had to fill out that was driving me crazy. My husband reminded
me of my promise. But my 9-year-old son Eli pointed out that I wasn't
whining—I was explaining a problem, ...
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A post from DoubleX writer Amanda Marcotte:
While conceding that Huffington Post might write headlines for its
celebrity bloggers, I still have to admit that I knew no good would
come from an article titled ''Don't Forget To Have Kids.''
This myth of the woman who ''forgets'' to have kids is so common that we
don't stop to think about how ...
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A post from DoubleX writer KJ Dell'Antonia:
Who knows what to believe when it comes to celebrity ''journalism,'' but it's apparently been confirmed that Angelina Jolie will adopt a child from Syria—something described on the website of the U.S. embassy in Damascus
as ''a difficult process and often an impossible one.'' In many
countries, ...