All the weekly parenting news you probably didn't have time to read last week.
– Katie Rophie,who famouslycompared newborn care to narcotics,wonders why single motherhood remains taboo,even in otherwise "tolerant liberal" circles.(Slate)
– Ketchup: Three decades ago,America was all but ready toclassify it as a vegetable;today,the French don't even want it as a dipping sauce.The French government hasordered school cafeteriasto reign in their use of ketchup.And the condiment is banned from being served up altogether when traditional French dishes,like beef bourguignon,are on the (school lunch!) menu. (Fox News,viaBabble)
– In一篇社论in the Journal of the American Medical Association,two Johns Hopkins epidemiologists reaffirm the health benefits of circumcision,and callefforts to ban the practice"ethically questionable." The authors also come out against cutting Medicaid funding for the procedure.(JAMA,via科学日报)
– What do you do when your little boy wants to attend the annual Purim spiel dressed as Queen Esther?That's the subject of one of the 19 monologues in "Motherhood Out Loud," a new off-Broadway production that parses the range of maternal experience. (The New York Times)
– Over at Salon,one young motherwho has begun to recognize her mother's overprotective tendencies in her own parenting style searches for "the origins of the Jewish mother mentality." (Salon)
– And Haaretz book critic Shoham Smithtakes issuewith the new Hebrew-language 官网下载beplay体育ios版pregnancy guide "OMG,I'm Pregnant," calling the lighthearted manual,which devotes ample ink to 官网下载beplay体育ios版pregnancy weight gain and maternity fashion,a "dangerous" piece of "bimbo lit." (Haaretz)
