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Teadrinking Mom: Motherhood & Apple Pie
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Missives on US politics and parenthood from a London mum gone stateside. Saturday, September 18, 2010. Motherhood and Apple Pie. Little Teadrinker has just made it successfully through her first full week in daycare. After 8 months at home together it feels like a wrench, but looking at the moms around Campusville I'm reminded of how lucky we've been. The. Of the Clinton Administration). The US is the only Western country where women have no statutory right to paid maternity leave. First, the moms here h...
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Teadrinking Mom: November 2010
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Missives on US politics and parenthood from a London mum gone stateside. Monday, November 15, 2010. Every Thursday morning a sea of strollers covers the entrance to Campusville Toys. At the back of the shop, the East Coast’s answer to Rolf Harris strums his guitar and sings, egged on by around thirty under-4s. We’ve looked to publicly funded Sure Start Children’s Centres. And libraries for this kind of thing in the UK in recent years. In the face of. So, might our toy shops go the American way? On the fa...
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Teadrinking Mom: Health, wealth & happiness
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Missives on US politics and parenthood from a London mum gone stateside. Wednesday, September 29, 2010. Health, wealth and happiness. It seems that for those able to access it, US healthcare provides a top-rate service. Contrasted with the sort of treatment we have been used to on the NHS, it is nothing less than luxurious. Obama’s Health Reform Bill, much of which came into force. Promises millions of less well off American families access to such services for the first time. And members of the. On Amer...
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Teadrinking Mom: Mobilizing Moms
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Missives on US politics and parenthood from a London mum gone stateside. Tuesday, December 7, 2010. Protesters have taken to England’s streets in recent weeks. And yesterday, British mums stormed Whitehall. or so my day dream went. Monday saw the High Court in London throw out a legal challenge. Brought by the UK’s leading gender equality campaign, the Fawcett society. Would the story have been the same if this had happened in the US? My reckoning is: probably not. And their results are not to be sniffed...
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Teadrinking Mom: Precipices and canyons
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Missives on US politics and parenthood from a London mum gone stateside. Friday, February 18, 2011. Since I last posted in early December over 7ft of snow has fallen in Campusville; one American President has come back from the precipice; two Middle Eastern Heads of State have been pushed over the precipice; and a little person I know has started skating a little too close to the edge for my liking. So, where do we go from here? Right to request flexible work. NYTimes article by Lisa Belkin. Of course, t...
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Teadrinking Mom: February 2011
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Missives on US politics and parenthood from a London mum gone stateside. Friday, February 18, 2011. Since I last posted in early December over 7ft of snow has fallen in Campusville; one American President has come back from the precipice; two Middle Eastern Heads of State have been pushed over the precipice; and a little person I know has started skating a little too close to the edge for my liking. So, where do we go from here? Right to request flexible work. NYTimes article by Lisa Belkin. Of course, t...
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Teadrinking Mom: Creepy Cops
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Missives on US politics and parenthood from a London mum gone stateside. Saturday, October 30, 2010. We’ve just got back from the police station. It wasn’t a pretty experience. The place was brimming with menacing characters, the walls were blood stained and the air was thick with the voices of screaming children. My main thought was to make it quickly through the maze of corridors and get Little Teadrinker out of there just as fast as possible. Our crime? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Brookings: L...
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Teadrinking Mom: Toy store story
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Missives on US politics and parenthood from a London mum gone stateside. Monday, November 15, 2010. Every Thursday morning a sea of strollers covers the entrance to Campusville Toys. At the back of the shop, the East Coast’s answer to Rolf Harris strums his guitar and sings, egged on by around thirty under-4s. We’ve looked to publicly funded Sure Start Children’s Centres. And libraries for this kind of thing in the UK in recent years. In the face of. So, might our toy shops go the American way? On the fa...
