Toddler
Daycare Runaway
Parents need help assessing whether they are over- or underreacting to what seems to be an isolated daycare incident with their toddler.
Relationships
Don’t Move So Close To Me
My parents are secretly planning to move near my immediate family. They are functional alcoholics and the stress of them pressuring to consistently babysit my young son is leading me to actually consider moving out-of-state.
Baby
How to Keep Your Favorite Babysitter From Being Poached By The Joneses
So you’ve found her–the perfect babysitter. How do you keep her around and exclusive? Learn from a former babysitter who always chose her jobs wisely.
Parenting
As the economy tanks, is your child care set-up changing?
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that child-care and nanny agencies are suffering, as financially strapped parents pull their children from child care. What’s going on with you?
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.
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?
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.
Young Child
Work-From-Home Summertime Blues
There’s four weeks left before school starts and a WAHM needs childcare advice because, SUMMER.
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?
Postpartum
Summertime Sanity
A teacher is at home full-time this summer with a toddler and an infant, and each morning dreads the super long intensive daylight parenting hours ahead of her. Is there more to this than just the new summer schedule? Amalah thinks maybe.
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.
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
How to Interview a Teenaged Babysitter
The real questions you need to ask when interviewing teenaged babysitting prospects.
Parenting
How To Find a Babysitter (when grandparents aren’t an option)
Ahh, ’tis the season for painting the town red. But you need a babysitter first.
Young Child
Preschool Breakdown
A mom needs help now that her preschooler’s behavior has started to deteriorate. Is this the beginning of a serious problem? How can she help her child here? We have some advice.
Parenting
How to Best Manage Your Child’s Caregiver
Managing the relationship between your child and their caregiver requires finesse and work. We have advice for you.
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.
Activities
How to Survive Cabin Fever if You are Craft-impaired
School break is upon us. At Alpha Mom we have plenty ideas for the crafty. So, we thought it would only be fair to present some for the not so-crafty. Enjoy!
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.
Toddler
The Best Way to Handle a Toddler’s Drop-off Anxiety
A parent needs advice on how to handle her toddler’s separation anxiety while dropping her off at daycare. Amalah has advice.