For my birthday, I bought a doll. An absolutely ridiculous gift for an adult, but also perfect. All of my childhood, dolls looked like Barbie : blonde, blue – eyed, Caucasian. So when I encountered a little Amer – Asian doll, I knew I had to bring her home. Jess McConnell was the Girl of [...]
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Christine Eclavea Mercer
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, I read because I was interested in the motivation behind Asian parenting. The author, Amy Chua, refers to her parenting style as Chinese. But to me, the parenting style is more inclusive. As it turns out, the book is famous, and controversial. And somehow I missed hearing about it. [...]
We spent most of winter break 2011 sick with the flu. Either we had. Or friends and family had it, seriously limiting playdates. We celebrated Christmas early, on the 17th, a Saturday. Someone brought germs. DD1 was extremely fussy Monday evening. In the wee hours of Tuesday morning she woke screaming with a fever of [...]
This is the first dress that I made for Kanani. In the typical way of children DD7 began to lament, almost immediately, that Kanani had only one dress. So I whipped one up quickly, lest she lose interest and stop reading. I just printed a free tee shirt pattern, two actually, to get an idea [...]
When I first heard that American Girl Dolls cost $100, I couldn’t believe anyone would buy them. I thought it was the most outrageously expensive toy. And I couldn’t come up with any type of scenario in my head that would justify such a purchase. Really, just how educational could they be? And then, I [...]
