Toddler
23 Exceedingly Helpful Tips For Maintaining Your Sanity While Living With Children
“Do not paint any walls in your house with flat paint” is just one of our many helpful tips for staying sane while raising children.
Parenting
Not That Mom
You know that mom who makes it all look effortless. She sews, bakes and organizes class parties. I am a good mom, but I am not that mom.
Parenting
Mothering Meltdowns, Keep Them to Yourself
Enough with the bad mother stories. I want to read about the simple joys of being a parent. I want to read people who inspire me to be a better parent.
Parenting
16 Things I Have Learned About Being a Mother
Mothering isn’t about the big issues, it’s about the small lessons we pick up along the way. They are the things our children will remember us for, good or bad.
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?
Parenting
A Dozen (or so) (Somewhat) Shocking Revelations About Motherhood
Even when you think you’re prepared, motherhood is just one surprise after another. We’re here to demystify it for you, just a little bit.
Big Kid
Forgiving Others Is Easy, What About Forgiving Yourself
This year I am going to let go of the things that I feel guilty about and forgive my own shortcomings. What would forgiving yourself look like?
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.
Young Child
The Last Time
The lasts are hard for me to deal with because when they are happening we don’t know that they are the last. It’s in looking back the event has any importance.
Pregnancy
10 Things My Mother Taught Me About Motherhood
My mom became my biggest cheerleader once I became a mom, and shaped me into the mother I am now. I’d like to thank her for things left unsaid for too long….
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.
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.
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.
Young Child
17 Ways to Be a Happier Parent
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?
Big Kid
9 New Year’s Resolutions for a Happier Family
Last year was a tough for me on many levels. I lost my joy. This upcoming year I am determined to get it back and make my family happier in the process.
Big Kid
The Boundary Between You and Your Child
What no one tell you is that while you are longing for some space, one day the roles will reverse. You will be the needy one in the relationship.
Baby
A Chat With Myself As a New Mother
I hope you understand that you’re doing the best you can right now. You really are. But all of the tears, the worrying, the agonizing, the self-doubt? Useless.
Big Kid
When Your Child Is A Perfectionist
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.
Your Life
Not All Moms Are Mothers
It’s time to sing the praises of the women who are your mother figures — even if their “official” title says something different.
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.