Parenting Sites 411

This week, I’ve got some great reads for you, along with a promised follow-up to the heartbreaking story I posted on Monday. There is plenty for you to enjoy here, as well as some good posts to get you thinking.   Hopefully, my little list will help you discover a new blog or two.  Or reconnect you with an old favorite.  As always, if you have a blog you think I should be checking out, leave me a comment here!

• “No Kid, Huh?” by IzzyMom.   Izzy takes on the controversial topic of breeder vs. non-breeder.  There’s a book out that urges people everywhere to stop having children in order to preserve the planet.  More disturbing are the comments in response to an article about the book from people who wholeheartedly agree with the premise.
• “Brothers” by a little pregnancy.  Julie talks about a sensitive subject to anyone with infertility or secondary infertility.  Having a second child isn’t always so easy when you child seems to want a sibling, it makes it all that much worse.
• “Higher” by Daring Young Mom.  The Daring One shows us exactly why you want to make sure to always keep the scissors out of your children’s reach.  Especially if they aspire to be a hairdresser when they’re older.
• “Hola, Isabel” by hola, isabel.  Isabel (not her real name, as detailed in this fascinating entry) describe exactly where the idea for her blog title came from and invites her readers to do the same.  She has an amazing narrative voice and it is entries like these that I look forward to reading from her.
• “Discipline and the two year old” by Purple is a Fruit.   Linda is at the end of her rope and in need of suggestions on how best to discipline her two year old son when he gets out of line.  Even more interesting are the comments that follow filled with commiseration and suggestions.
• “The Promised Details” by LagLiv.  Here’s my follow-up on this awful story.  The family got their baby back.  It’s not the most ideal circumstances and there’s a lot more to come but in the meantime, they’re enjoying lots of snuggles and loves.  And that is FAR better than any group home or foster care out there.
• “Empty” by dooce.   This was an entry from her I was hoping I would never see.  I never want to see this entry from anyone, actually.  When she posted earlier in the week about some bad stuff going on, I was worried and turns out, rightly so.  I’d be surprised if any of you haven’t seen this entry yet, as just about everyone reads Heather’s blog, but in case you haven’t, go check it out and then send some much-needed good vibes her way.
• “Ten weeks till Christmas” by Running Stitch. I wish I had one iota the talent that Brit has for homemade crafts.  She talks about how sometimes she feels cheap giving her creations as gifts and how we all need to treasure those things made by hand.  She suggests we all indulge in a homemade Christmas, even if just buying from one of the many Etsy shops out there.  She gives us a great list of shops to check out for starters and I’m thinking this is a fabulous idea.

I hope everyone enjoys their weekends. I know I plan to!