When I was new to this country, Obama had just been elected. Some cartoonist created a comic about the white house lawn being replaced with watermelon plants. I love watermelon, and assumed this implied that the president was fond of watermelon and oh wait, this gets worse, that this comic meant I had something in…

Well, in the few years that I have been a mother, there has been attachment parenting, free range parenting, consensual living, radical unschooling, continuum parenting, push parenting, pull parenting, earth parenting, duct tape parenting, shamanistic parenting, and traditional parenting.