parenting – April Fox

December 7, 2016

The Teenagers’ Guide to Pitching Plans to Your Parents

How not to drive your parents crazy when you’re texting to make plans

parenting, Uncategorized

parenting, raising teenagers, texting
August 19, 2016

New Book, “Chicken Soup for the Fuck You,” is here.

My new book, Chicken Soup for the Fuck You: Inspirations, Observations, and Character Assassinations is now available in print and Kindle format via Amazon. Here’s a little about the book: “Chicken Soup for the Fuck You” is spit straight from the hyperactive brain of a lifelong oddball who has, to put it simply, seen some…

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april fox, asheville writer, chicken soup for the fuck you, donald trump, humor, parenting, pat robertson, satire
December 20, 2015

Have A Very Goopy Christmas, Take Two

I posted yesterday about my new blog, Math Makes Me Poop, but apparently I was still suffering from Almost-Christmas-Break Teacher Brain and the link I tried to post didn’t actually work. So let’s try this again: here’s a post from the new blog. I hope you like it. Have a Very Goopy Christmas | Math…

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april fox, arts and crafts, asheville nc, christmas, education, holidays, homeschooling, teaching
December 19, 2015

Kids are Weird, Man.

Edit: Now with a real, live, working link to the new blog! Sorry about that. Some of you might know that when I’m not writing, I’m teaching. This year, I’m working with a brilliant, hilarious, adorable kid I call Little G, and I’ve created a new blog to chronicle some of our adventures. We do…

asheville nc, asheville writers, autism, children, education, family, homeschooling, humor, parenting, special needs kids

april fox, asheville nc, autism, education
September 28, 2015

Asheville’s Helpmate Hosts a Vigil to Help End Domestic Violence

A portion of the royalties from my latest book, Spine, will be used to benefit Helpmate, a local non-profit organization that helps women and their children who are in, escaping, and recovering from domestic violence situations. There’s a popular myth that women stay because they love their abusers and think they’ll change. That is certainly…

asheville nc, children, education, family, human rights, local, mental health, news, parenting, politics, social issues

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June 30, 2014

The Always “Like A Girl” Commercial Tackles Gender Stereotypes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs Feminine hygiene products aren’t usually known for being empowering. They serve a purpose, sure, and those of us of the womanly persuasion are certainly grateful that they exist in their modern form, but they’re not exactly thought provoking, beyond “Hmmm, is today going to be a Super day or an Ultra day?” This commercial…

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February 19, 2014

Barbie: Taking Our Daughters to the Dark Side, One Pink Stiletto Step at a Time

When I was a kid, playing with Barbie was a given. Little girls played Barbie, little boys played G.I. Joe, and once you all hit about twelve, your moms quit allowing you to play with both of them together because dammit, Barbie’s not a hooker. But maybe she is. I’ve heard a surprising number of…

family, feminism, humor, parenting, Uncategorized

Barbie, daughters, feminism, mothers, parenting
October 12, 2012

Minnie Mouse: Spokesmodel for Anorexia (or, How to State the Ridiculous)

So apparently, there’s some fancy store somewhere called Barneys. And apparently they’ve just recruited beloved childhood icon Minnie Mouse into their army of evil, promoting poor body-image among little girls while enticing people into the store for half-off sales and cheesy Christmas music played over a tinny loudspeaker. The story is that Barneys has created…

parenting, social issues

anorexia, barneys, body image, bulimia, change.org, disney, minnie mouse, parenting
May 31, 2012

“Ain’t No Homos Gonna Make it to Heaven” Video Documents Child Abuse in Church

Another disturbing video is making the rounds, this one even more disturbing than the one in which Charles Worley calls for homosexuals to be rounded up, placed in electrified pens and left to die. In this latest viral video, a small child walks to the front of a church and begins singing a song that…

atheism, christianity, parenting, politics, religion, social issues

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May 22, 2012

Banished from the Plastic Princess Kingdom

Baby girl got a set of Disney Princess dolls from her father’s girlfriend. I don’t have anything in particular against the Princesses, although I vastly prefer Grimm’s Cinderella tale to the sappy sweet animated cartoon versions, simply because I prefer the dark and slightly macabre to the fluff and fabricated happy endings. The argument that…

humor, parenting, Uncategorized

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