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Mothering Magazine Sponsored Chat with Hathor the Cowgoddess --Hathor lives in the middle of urban sprawl with her dearest super-husband and three wee and wise kids. She has had an unassisted birth in the middle of her 700 square foot apartment, she breastfeeds on demand and in public, she shares sleep, maintains constant contact and unschools. Not only does she do all of this, she does it with grand style and verve. With extravagant and outrageous behavior. And with her trusty sidekick baby in a sling.

Hathor is the completely true product of the imagination of Heather Cushman-Dowdee, an outraged (because she might look distracted but she is paying attention! ) mama who has done almost all of the above (that part is autobiography)... except for the part that she totally makes up (those parts are wishful thinking). The raucous exploits of Hathor and her family are produced in comic form on the web and printed in many, many zines and magazines and books, too.

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4/4/07

16 mothers in attendance!

All Mothering Sponsored chats with Hathor:

21:01:26 AutumnMama Good evening :) Nice little cozy group we have here. 
21:01:40 Webmama_Tina i just got done working on the yard
21:01:48 hathor Yes, we can chat and chat if only 4 of us are here
21:01:48 Webmama_Tina i'm all weedy and sweaty, bleh
21:01:53 Webmama_Tina yup
21:02:08 hathor we did some gardening today too, it was pots though
21:02:08 Webmama_Tina yeah i guess we don't need the official line up of questions with just 4, lol
21:02:21 AutumnMama :D Nope
21:02:25 Webmama_Tina lemme announce to the IM group and to the other rooms...y'all chat at will
21:02:26 Webmama_Tina :)
21:02:40 hathor maybe some slacker mamas will show up in a bit lol 
21:02:48 AutumnMama Looks like Mina's having a hard time staying connected
21:03:04 AutumnMama Yes, I would think so...I'm usually one of them lol
21:04:28 hathor my nine year old just made me pizza (frozen) so that we can feed the family while I'm chatting...
21:04:42 AutumnMama Aw, how sweet :)
21:05:06 hathor yeah, I think 9 is one of my favorite ages after the breastfeeding ones...
21:05:19 Webmama_Tina awww
21:05:31 mom2radata good evening
21:05:33 AutumnMama Fun, my oldest is 5...it will be neat to experience the different ages
21:05:46 Webmama_Tina i'm looking forward to getting past the toddler years with my little one...he's driving me NUTS! but watch, as soon as he's older i'll miss it...isn't that always the case?
21:05:49 mom2radata you want to borrow my 14 year old 
21:05:58 hathor as far as I can tell they keep getting better and better, it makes me want more kids...
21:05:58 mom2radata just so you get the feel for it
21:06:07 AutumnMama haha, if you'll take my 3 yo
21:06:25 AutumnMama aww
21:06:28 mom2radata I have a tyrant of a two year old
21:06:34 hathor ahhhhh, 14 that should be great! I really loathed my mama when I was 14! yippee!:shocked: 
21:06:46 mom2radata yeah that's about where we are
21:07:01 hathor ahh, I'm sorry to hear it...
21:07:06 Webmama_Tina lol mom2
21:07:07 kerlowyn i have one who is 14 too
21:07:15 AutumnMama man, so weird to think that we'll be there some day
21:07:17 mom2radata I mean it's not so bad because we do the whole consensual living thing
21:07:25 Webmama_Tina not looking forward to the teen years AT ALL, *sigh*
21:07:38 mom2radata but she rebels against that:shocked: 
21:07:42 Webmama_Tina i've heard some say its harder than the toddler years! if that's possible, bleh
21:07:58 kerlowyn my 14 yr old is totally goth, and I bleach his hair every 12 weeks
21:08:06 hathor I think the toddler years are wondrous! it's the age of 6 that baffles me..
21:08:06 mom2radata She has never forgiven me for having a baby in the bathtub when she was in sixth grade
21:08:14 mom2radata I love six
21:08:22 kerlowyn i told him some day when i'm old I remind him i was his personal hairdresser
21:08:34 hathor kerlowyn, how cool that you dye  his hair!
21:08:40 Webmama_Tina that's funny, i'm enjoying 6 with my daughter
21:08:41 mom2radata yeah you should get back compensation for that
21:08:42 Webmama_Tina lol
21:09:05 kerlowyn I told him I draw the line at home tatoos
21:09:07 kerlowyn LOL
21:09:16 AutumnMama lol
21:09:21 mom2radata yeah I don't like needles
21:09:30 AutumnMama Aw c'mon, don't be a party pooper ;)
21:09:35 hathor so does anyone have any questions for the moo goddess, or her creator? 
21:09:46 Webmama_Tina ah man, my toddler is nak'n and falling asleep...its TOO EARLY
21:09:51 Webmama_Tina gotta get up and do something with him...
21:09:54 Webmama_Tina its only 6pm!
21:10:00 AutumnMama :)
21:10:08 mom2radata mine fell asleep at about 5 p.m.
21:10:18 mom2radata we will be awake for many hours this evening
21:10:19 Webmama_Tina ok daddy put on the baby elephant walk on his computer
21:10:28 Webmama_Tina with visualizations...that worked
21:10:35 Webmama_Tina he's up! and dancing, LOL
21:10:48 mom2radata Hathor I have to tell you
21:10:52 AutumnMama Hm, I can't think of any questions off hand...I just love them!
21:10:54 hathor sure?
21:11:03 mom2radata I sent my mom a link to the you tube video on your site
21:11:05 Webmama_Tina hey hathor you gotta come to the unschooling chat on the first sunday of the month sometime...join me and dayna
21:11:13 hathor mom2radata yes?
21:11:19 mom2radata the one with the British lady and her girls
21:11:19 Webmama_Tina and sandra dodd is our mothering guest speaker the last week of this month
21:11:27 mom2radata I though Mom's brain would implode
21:11:30 Webmama_Tina i think this is unschooling month or something, LOL
21:11:37 hathor hee hee hooooooo!
21:11:42 mom2radata honestly you should have heard her it was priceless
21:11:44 AutumnMama lol
21:11:49 hathor exploding moms!
21:11:57 Webmama_Tina ok i don't remember the video so now i'm going to look
21:11:58 hathor tell me, what did she say?
21:12:10 Webmama_Tina where is it?
21:12:14 AutumnMama I finally got DH to put my sound card in so I watched it for the first time just a bit ago.
21:12:19 Webmama_Tina going to musings to see if its there
21:12:21 hathor the video is a docu about extended  breastfeeding...until 8
21:12:23 mom2radata honestly it got a little nasty because she told me that if I nursed that long she would have turned me in
21:12:30 AutumnMama :(
21:12:31 mom2radata so I said B isn't done yet mom
21:12:33 Webmama_Tina ah, found it
21:12:38 mom2radata and she screeched at me
21:12:47 mom2radata really it was the most unnatural sound I ever heard
21:13:03 mom2radata she's just blowing smoke,  she'd never actually do it  
21:13:04 hathor ah man, I'm so sorry about that, and its really sad that she didn't find anything to like in that video
21:13:33 hathor it seemed so sensible...but there are tons of nutjobs commenting on it...
21:13:35 mom2radata Mother weaned each of us the day we turned one
21:13:41 mom2radata I give her credit for that
21:13:54 mom2radata i mean that we all made it to one
21:13:56 hathor Now I want to know how can you breastfeed for a whole year,
21:14:06 hathor and then just callously wean?
21:14:20 mom2radata I can't even nightwean
21:14:23 AutumnMama I know! They're still such babies at that age
21:14:24 hathor It doesn't make sense to me, the pressure to conform must be terrific
21:14:25 mom2radata so I  have no idea
21:14:57 hathor are there any questions? you could throw out a question mark and I'll answer...
21:15:14 AutumnMama ...?
21:15:16 AutumnMama ;)
21:15:21 hathor AutumnMama ?
21:16:26 AutumnMama Ok, I was wondering what your inspiration/info for Unschooling came/comes from
21:16:38 AutumnMama (If that's not to OT)
21:16:52 hathor Not OT at all
21:17:17 hathor I knew I wanted to homeschool as soon as I heard of it at a LLL meeting
21:17:36 hathor and so I started reading and studying it and talking to dh about it
21:17:52 hathor and by the time it came time to do Kindergarten we were decided
21:18:11