Parenting
How To Find One-on-One Time with Your Kids
Yes, we know it’s important to spend one-on-one time with our kids, but how the heck do we really do that?
Money & Work
The New-Mom’s Guide to Finding Part-Time Work
Amalah answers one of her most frequently asked questions… how do you find meaningful part-time work that allows you to have that elusive work-life balance? Where do you start?
Big Kid
Push. Pull.
As the clock ticks down on my oldest’s remaining time at home before launch, the pushing and pulling between us intensifies, bittersweet.
Parenting
The Biggest Challenge of Having a Large Family
There are challenges that come with a big family. Constant comments from strangers and lots of mouths to feed. But there is one challenge I find the hardest.
Big Kid
Transitioning To An Empty Nest
I finally bought a new car, but is it just a car or the beginning of a bunch of transitions on our way to empty-nest-dom?
Big Kid
Different and the Same, Nearly-Grown Edition
Life with teens is completely different than life with little kids, and yet there are echoes everywhere of days past. Maybe it’s not so different, after all.
Big Kid
Things I Never Knew I’d Say
We’ve all had that weird “I just told my toddler to stop licking the cat” moment, but it doesn’t get any less weird when they’re teens, actually.
Big Kid
Motherhood (And Personhood) In Flux
I thought that once my kids were nearly grown I’d have everything figured out, but the truth is that as they change, I do, too, and I’m still figure it out.
Big Kid
Senior Year of High School: The Flip Side Of Struggle
Will I be sad during my oldest’s high school senior year? No way — the gift her struggles gave us turns out to be an abundant appreciation of forward movement.
Young Child
Frustrated No More (Except With Ourselves)
Amalah uses a celebratory Advice Smackdown update for some self-reflection on our own hard-earned parenting achievements, as imperfectly won as they may have come.
Parenting
On Becoming The Yes Mom
Parenting is full of a lot of “No’s” but it doesn’t have to be. Kristen shares how she turned a lot more of them into “Yes.”
Holidays
Mother’s Day and Milestone Memories
It’s Mother’s Day weekend and a time to get nostalgic about baby’s and thus mother’s milestones.
Parenting
On Motherhood, Love, Happiness and Reality
Given the recent attention to mothers confessing secretly about hating motherhood, I thought it was time to ‘fess up to my own secret of parenting.
Big Kid
Perfect and Good: Promoting a Healthy Teen Body Image
Recognizing my own negative body image issues and instilling a healthy self-image in my 13-year-old daughter.
Parenting
Getting Rid of the Shoulds
Let’s make a pact to remove this word from our vocabularies. Shoulds make you feel like a failure and get in the way of you appreciating what you actually do.
Big Kid
Parenting Big Kids When You’re Depressed
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.
Baby
Is It Really Different When It’s Your Own Child?
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?
Baby
You Have a New Baby! Now How Do You Keep Your Sanity?!
As a first-time mother, ten best ways to keep your sanity when you have a newborn.
Toddler
Why is Playing with My Kids So Hard?
5 tips for parents on being more present and less distracted when spending time with your children.
Baby
Lessons You Learn From Motherhood
Motherhood is full of opportunities to learn important, and not so important, lessons. You might as well laugh through them all.