The truth is that we all have times when we handle ourselves badly and our kids pay the price. The goal is to find a way to make things right and move on.
My newborn has colic and now my family is hanging out without me! Are postpartum hormones just making me oversensitive? Please help.
Depression, like any other medical condition, can impact your ability to parent the way you want to. You and your kids can get through it, I promise.
I’m pregnant, but I’m scared and unhappy all the time. I feel like the parts of me that aren’t sustaining a child are dying. And I don’t know how to fix it.
I’m pregnant and live overseas, but want to come home for my third trimester and the birth…with or without my husband.
A couple of life lessons I want to pass down to my 13-year-old daughter, Cal, about the importance of a positive body image and the consequences of surrounding herself with people who hurt, not help, that image.
No one wants their kid to be unkind to others, but when it comes to issues of mental illness, are you teaching your kid kindness or fear?
Teens are likely to turn to their computers and/or peers when they’re stressed out, but could old-school hand-crafting be a better solution?
My nine year old daughter is a perfectionist.
This past six week marking period she got her first ever B. She stomped up to her room and slammed the door. It hadn’t occurred to me before this that perhaps being a perfectionist had a negative side.
I made a conscious effort to figure out what would make me the happiest. What things gave me the most bang for my buck, so to speak. And the rest I just let go. Is there a way to just be happier? Or is the real secret to stop making yourself crazy with the things that don’t matter?
A mom finds herself and young family pulled into her husband’s family’s cycle of emotional and verbal abuse. She needs practical advice on how to save the relationship with her children’s grandparents, if that is at all possible.
As the Summer Olympics approach and the kids are talking about competition, here’s my nighttime ritual to talk to my kids about how amazing I think they are.
How do you take advantage of the sporadic free time you may have throughout the day?
Make a name acrostic using your kids’ best character traits to encourage them.
Pregnancy losses are traumatic, devastating and stressful. Here is some advice for navigating the scary world of being pregnant after multiple pregnancy losses.
After a difficult pregnancy, birth and newborn experience, a mother wants to know: Am I a monster for hating every minute of those “magical moments?”
When a past pregnancy loss has you too afraid to try again.
Conflicted and intrusive thoughts are ruining her pregnancy. We have some advice and resources to recommend.
Coping with regret, sadness and the sense that you’re being ridiculous when you don’t get the birth experience you dreamed of.
What are you afraid of? A reader asks for help coping with her fear of doctors.