Rebel Dad and the Mommy Wars...

It is exciting to see someone taking parenting options out of the war zone. Brian Reid is an at-home father, working father and whatever it is when parents combine them (which is sometimes a lot of time).  His moniker is Rebel Dad rather than Mr. Mom.  He is pushing us as parents to ever-greener more peaceful pastures and his niche is aggregating news for at-home dads.  You go, dude-Daddy!  His blog site is Rebel Dad.

He is a big supporter of Mothers Ought to Have Equal Rights grassroots coalition which is pushing for a 2006 campaign demanding a ceasefire in the Mommy Wars.  The MomsRising.org, also a grassroots organization, is helping to stop the Mommy Wars. 

Leslie Steiner Morgan's book, Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face of on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families, was released last month and ranks #1,970 in books.
This former advertising woman (she's now hopped the wall at the Washington Post and is blogging about motherhood) is selling the issue still -- the discussion there is interesting to read, although the  blog is hard to find on the WaPo sites and I'm not too sure yet if the writing is relevant.  The discussion is more interesting than her writing. 

But that is beside the point.  Rebel Dad is keeping a pulse on this and I am, too.  Steiner, an advertising person who knows how to fan the fames of publicity and keeping this issue going is good for book sales and good for WaPo readership. WaPo, home of James Risen and Bob Woodward and others, supports its home-grown authors.  Approaching intelligent mothers as a consumer market in order to capture and sell is insulting but this has been the MSM approach for far too long.

MotherPie's writings on this: Mom's Bring Home the Bacon, Fry it Up in the Pan, and Mommy Wars: Moving Past Simple Battle Terms.  If you want some help reading the Mommy Wars, here's suggestions from  Mother's Book Bag. Here's one mother's thoughts: Seems to me the issue is even hotter now than it was.  And here's another about how there's "no right way to parent and we shouldn't bludgeon each other about it."

When controversy sells and mothers don't have yardsticks to measure motherhood performance and are thus vulnerable to simplistic euphemistic epithets, it is nice to have Rebel Dad leading a battle for moms on this.  Thanks, Brian.

Update 4/28: Good article on Why the Mommy Wars Have to  Stop.