welfare queen

by on January 27, 2012

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Politics. You can't miss it right now. Every night a new city hosts a new debate or another attack ad blasts on the radio. I don't write about politics here, not really. But in a sideways way, when I have written about my family's experience with health care, unemployment, and public assistance I have been ...

Public misconceptions about who actually benefit from state benefits {guest post}

January 27, 2012
3 children

There is a vision of what an average welfare recipient looks like. None of it is pretty. Very little of it is accurate. When I tell people who I advocate for – people with autism and with intellectual disabilities, reactions usually come close to “oh that’s so noble..” it’s clear people believe it is a [...]

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Little Moments

January 24, 2012

I’m sure, like most of you, I tend to read the same collection of stories over and over each evening after bath time. We have a nice variety in the toddler library but unless it has wheels it won’t be making the reading rotation for a while. He favors stories about hero tractors, animal loving [...]

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Does any parent love the car shopping cart?

January 23, 2012
car cart

Of course there was a time when I thought it was positively adorable to plonk W into one of those bean cars attached to my shopping cart at the grocery store. Ah bliss, as my adorable toddler happily drove and beeped the horn of his child cart while I filled the basket area with items [...]

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My childhood on assistance and experience with poverty {guest post}

January 20, 2012
doublewide

It’s not like the people I grew up with were wealthy. Our county was predominantly poor and rural. Our teen drop out rate was shockingly high because it “didn’t matter,” and you were Someone if you could afford to shop at the Gap and Old Navy. Color coordinating outfits and a few trapper-keepers. Trapper Keepers? Please. That put you [...]

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The stuff he says

January 19, 2012
toddler adorable

W is at an age where I am constantly blown away by the stuff that comes out of his mouth. It feels like this kind of communication is so recent for us and I love every bit of it. He likes to grab on to a concept and then he shapes his world around that [...]

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A little SOPA survey

January 18, 2012
soap or sopa

I’m curious how you will all answer this. (And not in a snobby, internet way, just genuinely curious.) {Hint: There is a poll in this post.} photo credit: LuluP

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What’s for lunch?

January 17, 2012
whats for lunch

The other day I picked W up a bit early from school. His teachers were putting out the carefully packed lunches for his other classmates and as W wiggled into his jacket I took a glance at what was on the menu. Most of the kids had juice boxes out, some sort of snack type [...]

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January 16, 2012
tissue

Oh for goodness sakes! Yes. Another cold, sickness, yuk has taken over my house. I was the first to fall down, then Mother started coughing and getting all congested, and now W is a nonstop running nose. I know when you are sick your body tries to force you to slow down so that you [...]

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