Playdating With the Enemy
My friend’s kid is mean to my child, but my friend has no idea. Now what?
My friend’s kid is mean to my child, but my friend has no idea. Now what?
My husband is an alcoholic…but if he goes to rehab he’ll miss the birth of our child. What should I do? We have some advice.
When your child has the dreaded Fear Of Shampoo and will fight you to the death over it.
What’s the etiquette of gift giving for joint kid birthday parties?
One mom, two kids and five hundred pounds of baby gear. How to streamline for solo air travel.
So after a long discussion with Phillip during my haircut last weekend, I realized something. I get question after question about hair products. Which product should I use? What will fix this problem and that problem and can you recommend a good shampoo? But sometimes,…
My 2.5 year old loves to RUN. Away. From us. At every possible and dangerous occasion. What can we do, besides putting him on a leash?
What do you do and say when not only do many people inquire about your birth plan, but then those same busybodies try to change your mind?
Amalah’s never-ending quest to find natural, effective beauty products that WORK.
An expectant mom has decided that she will not breastfeed and will start formula feeding her baby right after s/he is born. She needs advice on how to handle the potential aggressive and judgey behavior she may encounter at the hospital from doctors, nurses and lactation consultants.
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?
How do you integrate a very new addition into your regular ol’ family beach vacation?
I went off medication so I could have a baby and nurse him for as long as I could. I need to go back on it, but the emotional pain of forced weaning hurts just as much.
Another day, another horrible sea-monster of a mother-in-law. How to handle a difficult mother-in-law and preventing bad repercussions on your marriage.
I want to cloth diaper but my husband thinks I’m crazy. Can you help me change his mind?
When gifts are being given from five states away, who foots the postage bill?
Kids on leashes. Probably one of the top parenting choices all but guaranteed to earn you some judge-y side-eye or comments from strangers, even more so than say, breast- or bottle-feeding in public.
Dear Amy, I’ve been reading Amalah for years — pre-Noah (your first child). I remember you posting one day that you had quit breastfeeding, including pictures of all the pump parts / accessories that you were throwing away. At the time, this was meaningless to…
A pep talk and survival guide for parents about to embark on the crapshoot of air travel.
My mother-in-law will be caring for my baby daily when my maternity leave ends. How do I set-up appropriate boundaries and manage that tricky relationship?