Bravo Time Magazine! You succeeded in causing an uproar about attachment parenting with your shocking cover of Jamie Lynne Grumet nursing her 3-year-old son, accompanied by your even more controversial headline, “Are You Mom Enough?” Yes you definitely managed to grab the attention of every media outlet there is. However, while TV, radio, and Internet was blowing up over the Time Magazine article (more so, its cover), there was another story that emerged this past week, that also received some …
The Time Magazine cover with MomsLA contributor Jamie Lynn Grumet nursing her 3-year-old has caused quite a media firestorm. People have come out for and against attachment parenting, have questioned Jamie Lynn’s motivation for appearing in the piece, and have written in defense of their friend. Many of our MomsLA contributors have written about it on their personal blogs and also here. Here are links to their posts. Yvonne Condes of YvonneInLA on MomsLA - Blogger on the Cover of Time …
I was only 25 years old when I had my first of three children. Looking back, that is an incredibly young age to be married and starting a family! Since I was a younger parent, I really depended on reading parenting books to aid in forming my parenting style. One of the very first books I purchased was the Dr. Sear’s Baby Book. The concepts of attachment parenting seemed foreign to me upon first reading, for I was bottle fed …
So, local mama Jamie Lynne Grumet made the cover of TIME with her nursing child for an article on Attachment Parenting and a media frenzy has ensued. While many people are wasting their time judging Jamie and other mamas, I wanted to set the record straight on an idea that’s been dominating the blogosphere lately–the idea that Attachment Parenting is somehow oppressive for mothers or a luxury only stay-at-home moms can afford. Jamie is an AP parent, and also happens …
MomsLA Contributor Jamie Lynne Grumet is on the cover of Time Magazine this week nursing her 3-year-old son. It came out online this morning and Twitter, Facebook, and every major media outlet has since exploded with comments. The article is about parenting guru Dr. Bill Sears and his attachment parenting method, but the focus has been on the picture. Was it done for shock value? Is it appropriate? The headline is confrontational “Are You Mom Enough?” Does nursing your baby …
MomsLA co-Founders Yvonne Condes and Sarah Auerswald recently met Eric Garcetti, LA City Councilman and candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles at a backyard campaign event in Marina del Rey, where he gave the assembled crowd a sense of who he is and where he came from. A fourth generation Angeleno, Eric Garcetti is a modern Renaissance man, it turns out: He is a Rhodes scholar, he was a University professor before entering politics, he serves as an officer in …
I tweet daily. Sometimes hourly. Sometimes many times in an hour. I tweet about my day, my son, what I’m eating, my mood, the weather, what movie I am seeing… I even tweet pictures from my Instagram feed. Just like every word I publish on my blog, I feel every 140-character message I send into the world is my property. In fact, Twitter says so too. So, isn’t it? image via Flickr Monday a New York judge ruled against an attempted quash …
April is National Sexual Violence awareness month. More than ever these past couple of months I have paid very close attention to cases about violence against women. It’s horrific to think that even in 2012 we need to stand up and bring attention to these issues. Don’t you agree? In February we were reminded just how precious life is as Josh Powell took his life and the life of his two children after the police were drawing closer to resolving …
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My group of mom friends here in Los Angeles includes a teacher, an office manager, an aerospace engineer, a work-at-home writer, an ad saleswoman, and a stay-at-home mom. We have varying degrees of flexibility in our jobs, but we have a couple of things in common; we’re tired and we’re worried. We’re tired because there aren’t enough hours in the day to get things done in addition to our work like laundry, kids’ homework and activities, and personal fulfillment (yeah, …
