Letting Your Kids Go
One of the most difficult things I have found about being a mother surprised me. It wasn’t the sleepless nights or the tantrums. It’s the “letting go.”
One of the most difficult things I have found about being a mother surprised me. It wasn’t the sleepless nights or the tantrums. It’s the “letting go.”
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.
We’ve all had that weird “I just told my toddler to stop licking the cat” moment, but it doesn’t get any less weird when they’re teens, actually.
I finally bought a new car, but is it just a car or the beginning of a bunch of transitions on our way to empty-nest-dom?
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.
Amalah answers one of her most frequently asked questions… how do you find meaningful part-time work that allows you to have that elusive work-life balance? Where do you start?
Motherhood is full of opportunities to learn important, and not so important, lessons. You might as well laugh through them all.
It’s Mother’s Day weekend and a time to get nostalgic about baby’s and thus mother’s milestones.
We all struggle with different areas of motherhood. There is no such thing as a perfect mother. We all have different strengths. We all have our weaknesses.
We have a few suggestions to help you feel more comfortable in clothes when your postpartum body gives you the gift of the “belly pooch.”
Dearest Amalah, I’ve been reading Amalah and the Smackdown for quite a while now and I’m hoping that maybe you can help me. I’m pretty sure you can relate to what I’m about to say. For many, many years I swore that I just wasn’t…
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.
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.
Will I be sad during my oldest’s high school senior year? No way — the gift her struggles gave us turns out to be an abundant appreciation of forward movement.
5 tips for parents on being more present and less distracted when spending time with your children.
Life with teens is completely different than life with little kids, and yet there are echoes everywhere of days past. Maybe it’s not so different, after all.
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.
Are you willing to risk relationships with the words you chose to write online? What if those relationships are with your children?
I have found I’m much more laid back with parenting my second child, but that doesn’t mean he’s any less loved. Can you relate?
I thought that once my kids were nearly grown I’d have everything figured out, but the truth is that as they change, I do, too, and I’m still figure it out.