Rebekah Kuschmider

Rebekah Kuschmider

Bio

Rebekah Kuschmider is a DC area writer with a background in non-profit management and advocacy. Her work has been seen at Babble, Scary Mommy, Huffington Post, The Mid, Redbook online, and The Broad Side. She is the creator of the blog Stay at Home Pundit and is a contributor to the upcoming book Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox (an anthology, SheWrites Press, Nov. 2015). You can follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

Rebekah Kuschmider Articles

White House Moves To Make Diapers More Affordable

1 in 3 families struggle to afford diapers. This is not a small issue; when parents try to minimize the number of diapers used by keeping wet or soiled diapers on a baby, it can cause health problems like urinary tract infections and skin irritations.

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Missouri To Require Consent Of Both Parents For Teens Seeking An Abortion

No mention is made of what happens should a teen be estranged from one parent, should a teen be in a single-parent family, if there are geographic distances between a teen and a parent, and did I mention that abortions are nobody’s beeswax? Yeah.

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Image Credit: NY Daily News

A Kid Is Injured, A Gorilla Is Killed, And The Internet Manages To Make It Even Worse

It makes us feel better to say “My kid would never…” but you know what? Any kid might. They run into the street, they climb too high in trees, they put things they find on the ground in their mouths — and it all happens in a second, while a parent’s head is turned.

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Cancer survivors will tell you that from the moment a doctor says, “You have cancer,” it consumes your life. It’s not only terrifying, it’s disruptive to the lives of entire families.

Calling Double Mastectomies "Overkill" Misses The Point

Women I’ve known with breast cancer are willing to go through screening, diagnosis, and treatment once — and only once.

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Parents need to take extra precautions to make sure kids are safe if guns are in the house.

Talking With Kids About Gun Safety Can Save Lives

You should teach your kids what to do if they encounter a gun, but we as adults should do what we can to prevent that from happening in the first place. One group of adults who can be especially helpful on that front is pediatricians. Some of them are hoping to be part of an effort to reduce gun accidents by talking to parents about gun safety.

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Adnan Syed

Adnan Syed Of Serial Is Getting A New Trial!

Serial fans rejoice! Adnan is getting a new trial!

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Thrones and cages and dungeons, oh my. Image: David Shankbone/Wikipedia.

Traveling While Kinky? KinkBNB's Got You Covered

Back in the old days, before the Internet was in our pockets, finding a vacation rental involved travel agents. Finding a vacation rental equipped with kinky sex equipment...Well, I don’t know how that would have worked. Luckily for all the fetishists out there, those dark days are behind us.

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Women and sports?

Can I Be A Sports Fan And A Feminist?

Can you name a WNBA team in your state? Do you know the name of a top woman golfer? Did you know it took Venus Williams digging her heels in to get equal prize money for men and women at Wimbledon and that didn’t happen until 2007. Venus Williams! Getting paid less than a dude! VENUS WILLIAMS!

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The Bidens join the Obamas in announcing forthcoming books from both husband and wife. (Image Credit: Flickr/Center For American Progress)

#RavsRadar: Book Deals For The Bidens!

Remember a couple of weeks ago when we got all excited to find out that the

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Ivanka won't be trying to sell you a $19,000 necklace anymore. (Image Credit: Flickr/Michael Vadon)

#RavsRadar: Ivanka's Uber Expensive Jewelry Is Done, But POTUS Trump's Healthcare Will Still Cost You

First Daughter and fashion mogul Ivanka Trump’s company announced this week that it will be discontinuing her eponymous line of fine jewelry.

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