3 Artists Who Inspire, “I Can Do Art”
Here are three artists who inspire me to try something new and make art. I hope they inspire you, too.
Here are three artists who inspire me to try something new and make art. I hope they inspire you, too.
When back-to-school feels bittersweet. Time goes so quickly and this mom isn’t sure she’s ready for the kids to be gone from home all day just yet.
Kids are heading back to school and we have some helpful advice to help parents start their kids’ school year off on the right foot.
Back to school seems more than a fitting time of the year to make some resolutions. A time to reinvent our routines and make them work for us.
“Do not paint any walls in your house with flat paint” is just one of our many helpful tips for staying sane while raising children.
The years will fly by. I know right now you can’t believe that. But I am telling you as I sit on the other side of parenting, eighteen years in, they will.
I made a conscious effort to figure out what would make me the happiest. What things gave me the most bang for my buck, so to speak. And the rest I just let go. Is there a way to just be happier? Or is the real secret to stop making yourself crazy with the things that don’t matter?
My nine year old daughter is a perfectionist.
This past six week marking period she got her first ever B. She stomped up to her room and slammed the door. It hadn’t occurred to me before this that perhaps being a perfectionist had a negative side.
I like to do less and wouldn’t we all like to enjoy our lives more? But what exactly do the authors mean by minimalist parenting, was a question that I wondered. Do they advocate living like Tibetan monks? Eschewing possessions and leaving our children to play with sticks? Does it mean letting your kids run wild with minimal parental interference? Is it hands off parenting?
Turns out it was none of those things.
Motherhood is full of opportunities to learn important, and not so important, lessons. You might as well laugh through them all.
5 tips for parents on being more present and less distracted when spending time with your children.
As a first-time mother, ten best ways to keep your sanity when you have a newborn.
After spending time with my friends’ needy, clingy children, I am having second thoughts about parenthood. Will I really feel that differently about my own baby?
Depression, like any other medical condition, can impact your ability to parent the way you want to. You and your kids can get through it, I promise.
Let’s make a pact to remove this word from our vocabularies. Shoulds make you feel like a failure and get in the way of you appreciating what you actually do.
Recognizing my own negative body image issues and instilling a healthy self-image in my 13-year-old daughter.
Given the recent attention to mothers confessing secretly about hating motherhood, I thought it was time to ‘fess up to my own secret of parenting.
It’s Mother’s Day weekend and a time to get nostalgic about baby’s and thus mother’s milestones.
Parenting is full of a lot of “No’s” but it doesn’t have to be. Kristen shares how she turned a lot more of them into “Yes.”
Amalah uses a celebratory Advice Smackdown update for some self-reflection on our own hard-earned parenting achievements, as imperfectly won as they may have come.