About Meredith O’Brien
Meredith O’Brien, author of A Suburban Mom: Notes from the Asylum, is a columnist for Parents & Kids Magazine.
A weekly columnist for Mommy Tracked, where she writes about pop culture and politics, she blogs about lifestyle issues, TV and politics at the Suburban Mom: Notes from the Asylum blog. She has worked in investigative journalism and as a newspaper reporter, as well as taught journalism at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
She has three kids — including a set of twins — and lives in the Boston area where she avidly roots for the Boston Red Sox while consuming too much caffeine.
Contact Meredith at: meredithobrien@hotmail.com.
Follow her on Twitter: MeredithOBrien
Author and columnist Meredith O'Brien gives you a peek behind the picket fences of modern day life and parenting in the 'burbs. With humor and candor, it's her take on real parenting in the real world.
Wanted to drop a note to say I enjoy reading your material!
Kirsten
Comment by Kirsten Branch — August 9, 2008 @ 9:43 pm
Love the blog. You rock. –Beth
Comment by Beth — September 8, 2009 @ 8:00 pm
Just read your Sunday column about Halloween costumes for girls in the Metrowest Daily News. I was so happy to find someone else with the same opinion that I wanted to say thank you. As the mom of a six-year-old girl, I can’t believe the sexualization of all of the girl costumes that I see in the catalogs. They’re little kids — they’re not supposed to be sexy. Since when did Halloween for kids and pre-teens become a sexy contest? Do people really buy those things for their kids and think they’re “cute”? And you’re also right, it makes you wonder what kids are learning. My 24-year-old niece is dressing up as a “sexy schoolteacher” this Halloween.
Comment by Brita — October 26, 2009 @ 9:32 pm