We at Hipmama.com have often stated that it isn't all that fucking hard to just do the right thing. However, sometimes it takes a little bit of creativity to figure out what that is.
How Etsy Grew their Number of Female Engineers by 500% in One Year:
Comedian tells audience to scare parents. Parents are scared!
Or informatively annoyed: "you are overpaying if you are getting illegal drugs, you goof."
Katelyn Campbell objected to her publicly funded high school promoting inaccurate abstinence-only sexual education advertised with flyers extolling “God’s plan for sexual purity.”
She thought that it might not be super cool to listen to speakers who said things like “if you take birth control, your mother probably hates you” and “I could look at any one of you in the eyes right now and tell if you’re going to be promiscuous.”
But when she exercised her constitutional right to free speech and complained, the school principal allegedly said: “How would you feel if I cal
This week it is hard to watch the news, let alone explain it to the kids.
When the world falls apart, we always turn to Mister Rogers:
Pick of the Week:
The 1980's were about way more than asymmetrical haircuts, Molly Ringwald movies, and music (though the music was really good):
This Is Not a Playlist for Margaret Thatcher's Funeral
This week we're talking about the hilarious:
15 Mid-Century Modern Dream Homes that will Kill Your Children
Reading Frenzy is a good friend of Hipmama.com. Plus Chloe has the best voice ever. Help relaunch a Portland institution!
The boss recommended I read Steve Jobs' bio, so I did. It was alright. I think with tighter editing it would have been more enjoyable for me, but I got pretty good about just skimming when I couldn't read another line about how he thought normal rules didn't apply to him. Once you've drilled a bit home, you can let it go... But, it was interesting, both for the things he was very successful at as well as the things he was extraordinarily human and flawed at. All the examples of things done really well, and so many examples of how *not* to do things.
My son is five months old.
ok i know i said this on shady's Ghost Town post but i wanted to make my own so it's seen by anyone looking specifically for me.
