Toddler
When a Toddler (Only!) Wants Grandma
A toddler is going through a stage preferring grandma over her own mom and it’s causing tears throughout the household. Here’s advice on how to handle this common phase.
Relationships
How to Make Changes When Your MIL Won’t Change
A mom needs advice on how to handle her difficult relationship with her mother-in-law who also helps care for her young kids part-time. The DIL very much feels like she needs a break from her MIL, but is her plan the right way to go?
Relationships
Grandparent Babysitters & Grown-Up Vacations
How to handle in-laws who are sending mixed messages after having enthusiastically offered to take care of their grandchildren for a week while the parents go on an adults-only vacation.
Young Child
Work-From-Home Summertime Blues
There’s four weeks left before school starts and a WAHM needs childcare advice because, SUMMER.
Health & Safety
Daycare Switches & Separation Anxiety
A very young child cries uncontrollably at his new daycare center and now his mom is feeling guilty about having transferred him there after having lost confidence in the previous one.
Health & Safety
Just Say No (To Forced Hugs)
A toddler’s mom needs help approaching her daycare provider about helping her daughter respect her friends’ personal spaces.
Pregnancy
How Something Good Can Come From Firing a Babysitter
It can be a bummer to let a babysitter go (and have to find a new one!) but sometimes it can be an important life lesson for your children.
Relationships
Can This Childcare Situation Be Saved?
A family childcare situation is putting a lot of stress on the kids and the parent in charge. The stressed-out mom needs some advice on how to handle this sticky situation.
Health & Safety
Grandma Caught On Tape
Grandma was caught on tape losing her temper while watching her grandkids. A mom asks whether (and, if so, how) she should confront her very sensitive-to-criticism mom about the incident.
Baby
When to Pull the Plug on Your Daycare
A mom needs help discerning whether her baby’s negative reaction to daycare is regular separation anxiety or something more concerning.
Money & Work
A Parent Work-Life Balance Smackdown
A mom needs help making a career decision that will impact how she spends time with her kids and outsources some caregiving duties. She turns to Amalah for advice.
Parenting
Should a Babysitter Just Babysit or Do More?
What is the role of the babysitter? Are they just there to care for children or should they be doing light household chores too?
Parenting
Who Cares For The Caretaker?
Self-care isn’t just about treating yourself to something special. For many people, it’s just giving yourself the simple, everyday necessities.
Relationships
It Takes a Village (of Nanny Tattlers)
What do I tell other mothers who are trying to tattle on my nanny that I have total confidence in her?
Baby
Attachment Parenting, Anxious Parenting
Should I be concerned that my baby will have different (but loving family) caregivers most days of the week? Will it cause attachment issues in my infant?
Products & Services
How Much Do You Really Pay A Babysitter?
Seriously, I want a straight answer. Is there a secret formula out there other moms are using?
Toddler
Daycare Bullies
I love my daycare provider…but not her kid. What to do when there’s a bully in the playgroup. We have some advice.
Baby
Can This Daycare Situation Be Saved?
I’m having second thoughts about our daycare provider. Should I listen to my gut or are my mommy instinct overreacting?
Baby
Grandma The Underminer
My mother-in-law watches my children during the day for free, but it’s costing me my sanity! She is undermining my wishes left and right.
Baby
Daycare Drama & Mommy Guilt
The daycare I chose for my baby turned out to be terrible and borderline neglectful. How can I ever trust my instincts again?