Can you be a parent and an activist?
I am consumed by a difficult realization I’ve come to lately. The care my children need to be as protected as possible under the conditions of capitalism outstrips…
I am consumed by a difficult realization I’ve come to lately. The care my children need to be as protected as possible under the conditions of capitalism outstrips…
This article reflects on the comparable dimensions of scholarly competition in what the author names “late post-revolutionary societies,” in this case China, France and the US. In this…
[no-caption] ER Productions Limited Each year across the world, kids of roughly the same age are packed into classrooms and confined to desks with the intent of learning…
Interview by Kevin Laddapong https://global.oup.com/academic/product/transcendent-parenting-9780190088989?cc=us&lang=en&# Kevin Laddapong: In Transcendent Parenting, you argue t…
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Melinda González. She is a PhD Candidate at Louisiana State University in the department of Geography and Anthropology, pursuing a doctorate in Anthropology. She is…
I am delighted to welcome writer Cileme Venkateswar to anthropod. This is the third post in my series on doing fieldwork with kids, and in it Cileme (who…
Thanks to some amazing role models in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, where I studied, I have always known that it is possible…
Understanding Toilet Training around the World May Help Parents Relax I recently published a piece on The Conversation about toilet training in a global context. You can read the…
Did you know that your mind is a cesspit of anger, and fear, and unresolved moments from your childhood? It’s not just you. Apparently everyone is living in…
The lives, status, and image of immigrants may constitute the single-most urgent human issue of our time. In an arresting and captivating new study of Cameroonian mothers now…
How do you raise a child? Ask any mother, and she’ll offer a long list of things you should do–and shouldn’t do. Not only will three mothers share…
Win a free copy of “A World of Babies”! To celebrate the official publication of the book, which is January 2017, our publisher is sponsoring an Amazon Giveaway.…
Interested in learning some behind-the-scenes stories about how “A World of Babies” came into existence? Check out a new interview with my co-editor, Judy DeLoache, and me in…
I had no idea I was singing the saddest song about motherhood of all time. It all started when I became curious about a lullaby my grandmother used…
Elaine Aron’s book The Highly Sensitive Person was like my own personal Da Vinci Code—riveting, compelling, and totally solved a mystery about myself I didn’t know existed. My…
This personal essay published in the Washington Post’s Parenting section, provides a lot of insight into the powerful norms and ideals of masculinity in (North) American society. In…
I am pleased to welcome guest blogger Jess Thompson to anthropod. In this post Jess shares her experiences of being a parent and university student, adding to our…
I am delighted to welcome guest blogger Charlotte Weston, who agreed to write this piece following my earlier post on Doing fieldwork with kids: Part I. These posts…
Recently I started a new research project looking at the social impacts of three Sistema-inspired orchestral music education programmes operating in low decile schools in the Wellington region,…
Yet another parenting article popped up in my Facebook feed this week. Not a How-To parenting article, which is annoying enough, but a You’re-Doing-Everything-Wrong parenting article. Generation X’s…
Did you know? In the U.S. nearly four million babies are born every year. Each of those babies is likely to use up to 8,000 throwaway diapers before…
Did you know? In the U.S. nearly four million babies are born every year. Each of those babies is likely to use up to 8,000 throwaway diapers before…
Did you know? In the U.S. nearly four million babies are born every year. Each of those babies is likely to use up to 8,000 throwaway diapers before…
Did you know? In the U.S. nearly four million babies are born every year. Each of those babies is likely to use up to 8,000 throwaway diapers before…