From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Phil & Teds Sport pushchair review

April 29, 2009

My daugh­ter was about 18 months when we moved to Ger­many with a rea­son­ably good pushchair, the Graco Mosaic. It never was what I wanted, but it ticked all the boxes I needed ticked when we first got it – a good all-rounder. Well, within 3 months of use on the cob­bled streets in our […]

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Victoria's Secret has nursing bras

April 25, 2009

While check­ing out the mas­sive dis­counts over at Victoria’s Secret right now (It seems sexy lin­gerie isn’t in high demand dur­ing a reces­sion), I noticed a cat­e­gory “Nurs­ing.”  I clicked it and low and behold, there were two nurs­ing bras: VS piped, full-coverage, under­wire, nurs­ing bra (avail­able in nude and black, both with white trim) VS nursing […]

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Cultural Differences in Parenting

April 6, 2009

As the mixed race child of an Asian woman who mar­ried a cau­casian Amer­i­can man and immi­grated to the United States, who then her­self mar­ried a Ger­man and moved to Ger­many (still with me?), I’ve been aware of cul­tural dif­fer­ences in par­ent­ing styles most of my life. I never really stopped to exam­ine what role […]

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