Play this game to see how absurd it is that many employees have no sick days.

Doesn’t apply to you? Think again, your waitress or cook may be passing a virus on to you right now.

What would be the best Mother’s Day Gift?

The Family Leave Insurance Act of 2008.

I want to show mother’s how much I REALLY love them.

I want tangible family values and not just hot air popping out of politicians mouths who then vote against employment policies that value families.

I want to pass the Family Leave Insurance Act which declares that Americans value families in a real monetary paid 12 weeks kind of way.

Join me and Momsrising this Mother’s Day in writing your representative and asking them to value Mom’s contribution to both the family and the workplace (no, it’s not too much …read more

I want This is what I asked for for Mother’s Day – hip political t-shirts at Momsrising.org’s new Zazzle store.

Momsrising.org is a bipartisan political action group made up of mothers fighting for Family’s rights. Mother’s rights are family rights. Women’s rights are human rights. Family rights are human rights.

Momsrising.org leads the way for women, stay-at-home-moms and career women equally, to cast aside apathy and become active participants in the making of policy.

Opting-out of the corporate workforce is no excuse for ignoring the feminine condition as it impacts working mothers.

Staying in the workforce is not excuse for ignoring the feminine …read more

My very favorite grassroots political action group is MomsRising.org because they represent ME & YOU. Mothers and women are very often left out of the loop, but MomsRising is showing us how to claim our own power on Capitol Hill.
Think a letter doesn’t make a difference? They do when 60,000 of them are sent to the New Jersey Legislature and that results in New Jersey passing a Paid Family Leave law. That makes three states (California and Washington) that have them now. Only 47 more to go.
Members have also sent over 42,000 letters to Congress telling them not …read more

Women are not made out of cookie cutters. I suspected this when as a child, I saw my role as a woman very carefully outlined, “Be a wife and a mother, your place is in the home.”
Not that I think that’s a bad place to find yourself at certain times in your life.
But, all women are not the same. My place is where I decide it is.
People just see things differently and it’s maturity that allows us to see that and respect it.
What I don’t like to see is women doing something they don’t want to be doing.
According to Pew Research Center …read more

The primary function of breasts is baby food not porn.
I was loving the Suave commercials showing the breastfeeding mother. They came under fire by National Action Against Obesity, whose President MeMe Roth Cites U.S.’s Anti-Nursing Climate as Contributor to Obesity Epidemic–”Suave Shampoo is irresponsible in discouraging breastfeeding, even in jest.”
Breast feeding DOES make breasts flat. For many, many mothers. How is that discouraging breastfeeding? To say that it doesn’t make breasts flat is to deny the reality of breastfeeding. And it inflates the importance of full breasts.
That it changes the nature of breasts, as does pregnancy, weight fluctuations and age, doesn’t mean it’s not worth doing. …read more