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Terrible tech toy tortures toddlers and tweens

By Lindsay Curren | December 10, 2012

Apptivity Monkey

We don't own a TV, so I don't see many ads. But since I love the NBC show Parenthood, I had to subscribe to HULU Plus to catch the show every week. There, I'm subjected to the every-eight-minutes commercial assault on our minds, dignity, and behavior so central to the TV "experience." This, HULU Plus calls "limited commercial interruption." I call it Hell. Ever since … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Economy Tagged With: conservation, parenting, peak oil, plastic, pollution

The real war on Christmas and why it matters

By Erik Curren | December 6, 2012

Bill O'Reilly

Christmas season is making me tired. Every year, I get tired of hearing jaunty, NutriSweet-y jingles that sound like they're sung by Hello Kitty touted as "Chrismas Carols" and played earlier and earlier in the fall. "Here Comes Santa Claus" on November 11 — it's a revolting enough song if you have to hear it once. But do we really need to endure this particular brand of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: Bill O'Reilly, Christianity, Christmas, commercialism, Fox News, News Christmas, parenting, religion, The War On Christmas, War On Christmas

Homemade Halloween

By Lindsay Curren | October 18, 2012

We're running this piece from 2010 again in celebration of the upcoming Halloween. One of my worst parenting memories happened when I took my daughters trick-or-treating on the vaunted Lawn of the University of Virginia campus one year. The girls were about six and four at the time, and the picturesque associations of the annual UVa. Halloween tradition conjured up … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Small World Tagged With: consumerism, cooking, DIY, homesteading, Oct 2010, parenting, relocalization

Explaining police brutality to kids

By Lindsay Curren | November 22, 2011

Pepper cop cherubs

What a quandary we find ourselves in. As parents, we want to uplift and encourage our children, to have them believe with hope and admiration in the founding documents of our nation —the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. The last thing anyone wants is to foster in our kids an early cynicism that unmasks the betrayals in our system, its … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Parenting, Spirit Tagged With: activism, Occupy Wall Street, parenting, plutocracy

Occupy parenting

By Lindsay Curren | November 15, 2011

Mother and child

I can identify with what's said about dying soldiers-that in their last moments they call out for their mothers, seeking, perhaps instinctively, that all encompassing comfort that mothers can give. My mom died quite unexpectedly ten years ago. Late on a Halloween, she simply went to sleep and never woke up again. And though we were very different, and the relationship was more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Parenting, Spirit Tagged With: activism, communication, community organizing, families, homesteading, Occupy Wall Street, parenting, Transition

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