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Last month while on clothing expedition, he selected from a shelf a pair of bold, pink flower-covered cotton pants and asked me to buy them for him. I heard a disembodied voice that could only be mine reply stiffly, “Let’s take a look at these pants. Do these look like boy pants, or girl pants?”

I'm not offended when I'm asked these questions, at least not for me. But I feel a little irked for Andrew. What, because he is a man the best he can do is "babysit" his child?

The response to Natasha's Queer Parent 101 post was so overwhelming, that I've asked her to become a regular contributor here on Offbeat Mama! Thanks to Viva La Vida...

o there I was…about to sit down for some lunch with my father, step-mother, Ranger and The Kids. Ranger and Big J were wrestling in the living room when Big J shrieked with laughter, "Daaadddy, you hit me in my penis!"

A version of this post originally appeared on Single Spaced. I just read this AWESOME post over at Feministe about attachment parenting and feminism. The discussion is still...

The hardest part of being a mother is trying to be a mother. Let me clarify. The hardest part of being a mother is trying to be the mother everyone tells you you must be. For me,...

Would that every child has a mother as embarrassing as mine!The first social reality of which I ever became aware was that my mother was the most embarrassing person on the entire...