Tag Archives: parenting

Save the Children

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Linda Jenkinson

Is it any surprise that organizations such as Save the Children are against Madonna’s plans to adopt Mercy, a four-year-old orphan from Malawi? According to the Telegraph1, Mercy has spent the majority of her life in the Home of Hope … Continue reading →

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Cartwheels in the Parking Lot

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Linda Jenkinson

A comment by a reader of Blogging for Bitter Women  made me remember the day I wanted to do cartwheels in the parking lot. The reader (another Linda!) commented that if she had superpowers one of them would be to … Continue reading →

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Reinterpreting “Spare the Rod & Spoil the Child”

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Linda Jenkinson

Spare the Rod… I was brought up to believe that if you spare the rod, you’ll spoil the child. It was an on-going, hands-on lesson and when I became a young adult, I was firmly against hitting my children…

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