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  • Recently someone on the blue pointed me to http://fosterhood.tumblr.com/, a blog written by a foster mom and I was obsessed--read the 270+ pages of archives in about 3 days. I'm looking for other similar blogs, but googling for 'top recommendations' of parenting blogs hasn't exactly found me what I want. So, hive-mind, do you have any recommendations of your favorite parenting blogs? What I'm interested in: 1) Introspection and self-awareness: I like reading blogs because I like to have a window into someone's "inner life". It doesn't have to be deep and therapeutic type stuff, but I am interested in learning someone's honest story, and not a sanitized-for-facebook version of their lives. I think its especially interesting when people talk about the struggles and challenges they face and how they get through them. 2) Diversity in family structure: Most people I know in real life come from a 'typical' family structure, so I'd love to learn more about foster families, multi-racial families, stay-at-home dads, extremely rich or extremely poor families, etc. I'd extend this to both sides of the political spectrum -- I'd be interested in a "quiverfull" homeschooling mommy blog, as well as a feminist CXO mom, as long as they both seem to question their place in the world and show respect for the other lifestyles people live. 3) Humor: Cute or funny stories about the weird things kids do. What I'm not interested in: 1) Blogs with alot of ads/product placement: I respect that alot of people are doing this for a living, but it's really distracting when you have to work to filter out the "serious" posts like with http://dooce.com/. 2) Displays of pinterest-perfect housewifery: Like the blogs listed in http://www.salon.com/2011/01/15/feminist_obsessed_with_mormon_blogs/. Similarly, I'm not interested in blogs that are mostly recipes or craft-patterns. 3) Parenting advice: I don't have kids -- for me, kids in parenting blogs add to the drama of their parent's inner lives, but photos of kids aren't interesting on their own. It's fine if a blog includes some of these three things, but I'm not looking for blogs where those are the focus. From some http://ask.metafilter.com/126841/Is-there-any-such-thing-as-Daddyblogs ask-mefi questions I found http://www.mattlogelin.com/ which looks intriguing. Some career blogs I follow have posts about parenting, that are the http://science-professor.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-it-takes-to-lead.html of http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2014/05/12/what-does-it-really-mean-to-work-full-time/ I'd be interested in reading more of, so feel free to recommend blogs that aren't only about parenting too.

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    It's not a blog, but the MaxFun podcast http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/one-bad-mother jumped to my mind when reading this.

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I learned about http://fosterwee.wordpress.com/ from Fosterhood, but it covers similar terrain as Rebecca. It's a little less cutesy, which I actually think I prefer.

ArbitraryAndCapricious

I really enjoy http://www.twelve22.org/'s writing about motherhood, her pets, house restoration, and gardening. From what I gather, she's made a home with a platonic male friend and has had a daughter recently; her posts about deciding to get pregnant with a donor, singlehood, as well as her experiences with the baby, have been really interesting to read. There is a certain calm and peace in the pace of life she describes, which I find pleasant and reassuring.

magdalemon

http://bluemilk.wordpress.com/ I love Andie's writing and always learn something when I visit.

lafemma

Thanks everybody for the great suggestions! I marked a couple that resonated personally with me, but all of them were well worth reading, and loads better than what I found through random googling.

tinymegalo

Also, this http://scienceblogs.com/casaubonsbook/ from ecology and peak oil and climate change to fostering, but it's always interesting.

gakiko

http://rosylittlethings.typepad.com/ might be a little too craft-heavy for you but I adore it. Alicia is a designer with a one-year-old adopted daughter, she's a great writer and photographer. Her blog is just beautiful and warm. If you go back in the archives, she wrote about an adoption that fell through that made me cry.

Safiya

To add to the list: I've recently started following http://carolynee.net/ and http://www.freeourkids.co.uk/.

gakiko

http://www.lyzlenz.com is hilarious.

jpdoane

I personally enjoy http://www.amalah.com/, http://julia.typepad.com/, and http://mimismartypants.com/. Agree that Dooce is getting harder and harder to read.

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