Dealing with Judgmental (or Just Plain Mental) Co-Workers
An expectant mom needs advice on how to handle the inappropriate and judgmental conversations by her co-workers about pregnancy and parenting. We have LOTS of advice here.
An expectant mom needs advice on how to handle the inappropriate and judgmental conversations by her co-workers about pregnancy and parenting. We have LOTS of advice here.
Amalah explains the evolution of her change in personal opinion regarding her once safety-focused concern on lavender oil in children’s personal care products.
Having moved recently to a new neighborhood, football has been on Amalah’s mind and she shares her recent thoughts about her young kids playing contact sports.
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.
What do you think? Is the prank too mean? A harmless bit of fun? Have you participated or plan to or just can’t even imagine doing that to your kids?
Met with Huggies as part of a roundtable and discussed extensively discussed the the hows and whys behind the of glass shards mistakenly thought to be in their baby wipes.
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?
My close friend won’t stop disparaging my choice to go back to work! Can this friendship be saved?
I think television watching becomes a habit. I don’t want my children to develop that habit any more than I want them to start smoking or drinking.
We should just remember to treat our children as individuals, celebrate their differences, and not worry much about everything being perfectly even or equal.
I don’t find other people’s misbehaving children endearing at all. I am not childless. As a mother of seven children I fully support these type of bans.
Teen boys are wearing bracelets with the message I Love Boobies. Do these bracelets really raise awareness for breast cancer or are they promoting sexism?
A few weeks ago, Jillian Michaels was caught in a press maelstrom. I was able to speak to her and get the lowdown on what really happened.
Our food supply has changed dramatically since the late 1990s with a proliferation of genetically-modified proteins, antibiotics, chemical additives and preservatives. At the same time we have seen a dramatic rise in children’s allergies, asthma and ADHD. Hmm….
That’s right! A poll shows that the vast majority of women would nurse another woman’s child who was in need.
I’m interested to hear what you guys think about Barbies. I don’t have a daughter, but I was a girl—a girl besotted with the world of Barbie.
I am so tired of babies being equated to accessories. Yes, there is a baby boom happening in this country but it has nothing to do with Brangelina. Parents are not having babies because it’s fashionable.
We have written about the bullying epidemic and how technology has made this age-old issue more intense and pervasive. What I have recently learned is that kids who would have typically have not participated in an in-person bullying incident often become active participants in cyberbullying….
It’s the day after Valentine’s Day, and I’m thinking about circumcision. I assure you this is a coincidence. So! Those of us who have birthed baby boys are faced with the inevitable question: to snip or leave intact? In most of the world, the majority…
We’re in the early stages of a Baby Boom in the US? Yup. I had read that before. But only now is it starting to show up in our national birth data. National Birth Figures 2006: 4,265,996 2005: 4,138,349 2004: 4,112,052 2003: 4,089,950 2002: 4,021,726…