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Times Online's List Of Ten Great Parenting Blogs

Posted by Patti

UK news outlet The Times Online's Alpha Mummy blog has posted their list of the ten great blogs that every working mum should read--good to know that the US doesn't have the market cornered on the assumption that to be a parent means to be a mother, and the qualifier "working" is somewhat puzzling, as their list is not at all specific to working parents.

The list features a few of the usual suspects: Dooce, Parent Hacks, Kiddley. Also included are a couple of blogs that aren't necessarily parenting blogs per se, but that a parent could definitely benefit from reading: Lifehacker and The Happiness Project. Alpha Mummy rounds out the list with fellow Times Online blogger India Knight's Isn't She Talking Yet, the Wall Street Journal's Juggle, and new-to-me reads MamaPop and Motherhood Uncensored (sometimes I don't know where I am when everyone else is blogging great stuff).

Oh, and the top of the list? Just a little site called Babble.  

And now comes the best part of any top-something list: What's Wrong With It. Who's missing from Alpha Mummy's top ten? Is this list really what it claims to be, the top ten blogs for working parents (at least one of the blogs, MamaPop, is written by self-described stay at home parents)? Where all my daddybloggers at?


Comments

 

Papaganoose said:

way to go babble !

January 18, 2007 8:00 PM
 

Latia said:

I read a sweet little daddy blog-Daddyforever.com.  It's a fella and his three kids and his wife and his little adventures with them day to day. It's really sweet.

I am apart of the Noodad.com community (and I'm a mom).  It's two guys who were about to have kids but had no clue about any of it so they got together and developed a little community that is very user driven.  They write and article and everyone comments on it-everyone talks to one another and gives each other advice and reassures their motto: "Noodad.com: We're here for ya, man."

My favorite articles? Life Lessons from Luke Skywalker and the Ten Hottest Babes in Kid's TV...I posted my rebuttal of the Ten hottest fellas in Kids TV.

January 18, 2007 11:05 PM
 

cmoewes said:

We are out here (all the daddyBloggers that is). http://father.moewes.com

January 19, 2007 9:42 AM
 

selfmademom said:

This list really annoyed me. I know all moms "work" and trust me, I think staying home with my son is harder than going into the office.  But this list is NOT a working mom blog list- let's be clear.  It's a list of good mommy blog sites.  In fact, why doesn't Babble have a working parent blogger!?

January 19, 2007 10:49 AM
 

JasonAvant said:

Selfmademom - Babble has several "working parent bloggers"; I have a "real job" (by day I'm an HR specialist for a company in San Diego). Curious, though - how do you define "work"?

January 19, 2007 11:37 AM
 

selfmademom said:

Thanks for the clarification, Jason. I guess it is just not that clear sometimes from reading the bios of bloggers just exactly what defines their "jobs." And I definitely didn't mean to offend... I just want to talk to others online going through the same thing as me - the pain of leaving your kid in the morning, the exhaustion after going on a business trip... firing nannies... I'm having a tough time connecting on those issues.  But, anyway, I digress... We all are in the same boat in so many ways!

How do I define work? Well, it's just the curse of the middle class, I guess :)  

January 19, 2007 2:23 PM
 

selfmademom said:

Ok, upon further thinking of my definition of "work," I feel I may have been too glib in my response.  I don't feel that I'm a huge authority on this topic.  However, since you asked, here is a better explanation of MY definition of work. I think "work" is when you have to leave your house in the morning to go to an office because people count on you for some sort of face time and interaction.  It doesn't mean that being a parent isn't "work," (I've said it before, I think being an SAHM or SAHD is harder than working) but I think it's a whole different dynamic when you have to hurry up and get ready in the morning and go away on trips and rely on someone else to care for your child when you're out of the house. If I didnt work where I do now and was an SAHM, I wouldn't say I "worked."

January 19, 2007 3:45 PM
 

If you care to know, here is my definition of “work” » Self-Made Mom said:

January 19, 2007 4:03 PM
 

nkygal said:

I read Working Moms Against Guilt (www.wmag.blogspot.com) It is a great blog that is written by four working moms from Cincinnati, OH.

January 24, 2007 9:25 PM

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