While a certain pair of men running on non-major party tickets keep getting press, the only ticket with two women of color isn’t getting much love. As a women/mother-centric site, I thought I’d give it to them today. In my last post, I wrongly said that the GOP would meet in a few weeks..oops! It’s next week. So on the last night of the DNC and days before the RNC, I give you the Green Party ticket and what they say they want to do for women:

It says something about a ticket that doesn’t even list either candidate’s names in their URL: http://votetruth08.com/. You could say that they know they don’t stand a chance, that they really do want to fight for the truth, it makes you wonder what is the truth?

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Don’t fret my Republican & Green friends, I shall cover you all as well. Since I did miss the Green Party convention a few weeks ago, I’ll do them next week as the GOPers are gathering the week afterward.

Today marks the start of the Democratic National Convention and with it four days of speeches, promises, and pageantry all designed to get us to vote for the Obama-Biden ticket. But what does this ticket offer for working women? Are we even on their radar? A peek at the campaign website offers multiple policy stances in these areas:

* Health care
* Reproductive choice
* Preventing violence against women
* Economic issues
* National security
* Poverty
* Education

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I read the line about five times before it sunk in…Dads & Daughters, an innovative and I daresay feminist national organization that focuses on the Father-Daughter relationship was closing.

I’ve known of Dads & Daughters since my husband became a dad himself. I went to the bookstore for his first Christmas as a dad to find a good book on being a dad. I wanted to help prepare him for what I thought was one of the most fragile relationships to foster and maintain. I bought him Dads and Daughters by Joe Kelly. I of course was curious about who this man was, went to my computer and did a web search and obviously found Dads & Daughters the organization.

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By the time you read this, I’ll have either succeeded in or failed to sign my daughter up for gymnastics. Am I pushing her to be the next Bridget Sloan? Um, no…at least I hope not!

It’s not that I wouldn’t be honored and uber-proud of her if she made the 2020 Olympics in gymnastics, it’s just that despite the fact that I love, LOVE gymnastics, I’m not sure if I want our family to take that road. To have her give up so much of her personal life in order to spend a few extra hours in the gym every…single..day? In the hope that maybe one day in 12 years she’ll be perfect enough to go to the Olympics? To spend all that money? To perhaps rob her of a few inches of height? Seriously, we’re Latinas, we don’t have much height to give up.

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In one month my baby girl, my one and only, will start kindergarten.

As a full-time working outside the home mom, it’s not that I fear her going off without me because she’s been in daycare since she was 3 months. It’s not that she’s scared of starting kindergarten, she’s looking forward to it. But there is just something about kindergarten that scares the beejzus out of me.

Perhaps it is because she has been in the same place since she was three months old. That we really love our center, the directors, and the teachers. It might have something to do with the fact that our daughter is really comfortable with her center and teachers as well.

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