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Impersonal, bureaucratic, and practical—these have been key words involved in defining Chinese Character for a long time. Parents invest suicidal amounts of energy and money in creating a super-child who will make the bar and beat the odds. And there is nothing more expensive than space, and nothing more rare than silence. Yoga is a new and lucrative business in China, because its centers (expensive and exclusive) offer both...
...practicalism is coming to a boil. Now, there is only one child per family, and the importance of birth order and gender is an obsolete concept. Now, the New Oriental School is singing a self-important and idealistic tune. Now, drunk Leo at the bar is asking me what I think of the Chinese. There is a struggle for self-definition, for introspection, for something newer, more ideal...
...fact, giving them 'permission' to party down with the cocktails while supervising a gang of 2-year-olds," she says. "I tried to explain in various interviews and columns that it's not about alcohol - it's about attitude. The addition of alcohol to your incredibly overscheduled, child-centered life wasn't going to suddenly make you a relaxed 'three-martini mom.' It was simply going to make you a very busy drunk." (Watch TIME's video "The Story of an Uninsured Woman...
Tell that to Turning Leaf wine. The company's new ad campaign, complete with minisite HowDoYouBreathe.com, features smiling mothers - among them the parenting blogger Rebecca Woolf, author of Rockabye: From Wild to Child - and implies that wine is as necessary as oxygen to parents of small children...
...hate the fact that when a man does something idiotic and criminal resulting in the death of a child, that isn't held out as some Searing Indictment of Modern American Fathers, but a woman's colossal, tragic screw-up somehow does end up reflecting on all her fellow mothers," says Carole Morrell, author of the popular parenting blog DrunkenHousewife.com. "In this particular instance, I'm sure this will confirm the belief held by many that a mother should never drink around her children, ever...