Welcome to the Sunday Surf, a tour of the best blogposts I've read throughout the week.

I think he doesn't seem as old to us as Mikko at that age because of the marked differences in hair volume.

We've been beachin' it up around here. That's a verb Mikko coined, and I will now use it liberally.

The boys have been wanting to hang out and dig in the sand every day. Well, Alrik doesn't express this verbally, but he cheerfully sets off crawling once he's let down on the sand. He digs with the little shovels (whichever one you're trying to use), slithers into any hole you're trying to dig, smashes through any castle you're trying to build, and then scoots away on grand 11-month-old adventures. At least he's stopped eating the sand.

Speaking of 11 months. I had to emphasize that while I can, because: Tomorrow — tomorrow! — my baby turns ONE.

How did that happens?

Links to read!

19 minutes ago

#attachment parenting
#race
#TIME Magazine
"Not that you’d know about this, but African and indigenous South American women have been wearing their babies in wraps on their backs, and breastfeeding their kids through early childhood for centuries. And many modern single moms, out of necessity, have been co-sleeping with their children through late childhood years since forever.
However, when a world renowned doctor and parenting expert Dr. Sears assembles those practices along with 6 other steps for growing confident children it is called “Attachment Parenting,” making news and going viral. It also gets a coveted TIME magazine cover."
Hey, Time Magazine: I Am a Black Attachment Parent | Political News and Opinion from a Multicultural Point of View
1 hour ago

#fat acceptance
#body image
#health at every size
#weight loss
#health
These are the Fat FAQs | LoveLiveGrow →
So much good information here. So many linked resources. I can’t even pick out what I like the best. Please read and absorb it all. Thank you.
1 hour ago

#attachment parenting
#TIME Magazine
KellyNaturally.com | What Attachment Parenting Is (and What It's Not) →
1 hour ago

#gender roles
#gender
#SAHM
#WOHM
#balance
#identity
#work
Sneaky Gender Roles: A Guest Post From Mama Raw »→
It’s important to me she recognize I am an individual outside of being a mother. …
I don’t want her to hear these stories and know me as an individual only in the past tense–what I used to do or who I used to be.Beyond a stay-at-home mom, who am I now?
10 hours ago

#attachment parenting
#allomothers
Connected Mom: Open Letter To Mainstream Media →
I am not being oppressed by my parenting style. Thanks for your concern but you are missing a key piece of the story. You see; I am not solely responsible for building and maintaining my child’s sense of attachment.
Exactly. Attachment parenting wasn’t meant to exist in a vacuum of one isolated mother and her children. It’s a natural child-raising culture, but it reflects the millennia of how parents raised their children only if the village is intact. On the one hand, having been plenty isolated myself, I totally sympathize with parents who find AP hard due to lack of support. On the other hand, refusing to acknowledge the role that other trusted caregivers have in AP (particularly partners, who I think get the shortest shrift in these conversations) just reinforces those silly modern stereotypes that parenting is meant to be done alone. 
11 hours ago (1 note)


#poetry
#birthdays

you shall above all things be glad and young →

Ah, I love e.e. cummings. What a beautiful birthday tribute, and poetry break.

you shall above all things be glad and young
For if you’re young,whatever life you wear
it will become you;and if you are glad
whatever’s living will yourself become.

Carnival news:

• June Carnival of Natural Parenting — due June 5 — Our call for submissions will come out soon, but here's the spoiler: . (Hobo Mama & Code Name: Mama)
• Carnival of Weaning — live tomorrow! (Code Name: Mama & Aha! Parenting)
• Preparing for Birth Series — April 30-July 8 — see the post for details (A Little Bit of All of It)
• Authentic Parenting Carnival — due May 18 — Parenting Practices and Criticism (Authentic Parenting & Positive Parenting Connection)
• Carnival of Tandem Nursing — due May 22 (Mommying My Way) — and check out my (our) picture!
• Simplicity Parenting Blog Carnival — due May 22 — Organizing (The Lone Home Ranger & S.A.H.M. i AM)

Does anyone have any to add?

From Natural Parents Network:

• Growing Children
• Wordless Wednesday: Routines
• Homemade Rice Cereal: Brown Rice Congee
• Diaper Your Child for Free – Or Very Close To It!
• On Telling My Kids the Truth

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Surf with us:

We love following along with fellow Sunday Surfers. If you have your own post of reading links to share, please link up your post on Hobo Mama or on Authentic Parenting. The linky will go live every Sunday, and you can link up any day that week. If Sunday doesn't work for you but you do a links list another day, feel free to play along. You only need to add your post to one of the sites, and the linky will automatically show up on both sites.

You can get the Sunday Surf button by Jenna Designs and some code to add to your post from my Sunday Surf page.

Check out previous editions for good reading, and you can find more shared items during the week at my Tumblr blog, Hobo Mama's Shared Items.

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