By Melissa Lilly of The Stay-at-Home Life Since I told you my child is special needs, you’ve turned into Professor Sanctimommy McKnowItAll. While you pretend to be supportive, say you know all about and have experience with autism, and claim you’re not judging, your backhanded, know-it-all comments have given you away. […]
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6 Parenting Apps That Should Totally Exist
By Vicki Lesage of VickiLesage.com When my kids were babies, I used all sorts of clever apps. A breastfeeding app for tracking each feed, providing me with useful information like, “No way! I’m feeding him 12 hours per day? THAT must be why I’m exhausted/frazzled/totally brain-dead.” Or the poop tracking app […]
7 Reasons to Get Turnt Up at Tar-Jay
By Sarah Hosseini of www.SarahHosseini.com We like our wine, and we like our Tar-Jay. (And our gender neutral toy aisles). Ya hurd me, muthas? I mean, tipsy at Target? Sounds like a day night out to me. Mothers everywhere rejoiced when news from the booze gods announced, “Target Set to […]
6 Ways Toddlers Ruin Your Life
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] By Eileen Turay of Liv and Leen I can’t always be positive, right? Every once in a while, I deserve to have a guilt-free vent session about the things my three-year-old does that are slowly killing me inside. In no particular order, here are the things I truly believe […]
Parenting Brady Style: Getting Schooled by Carol and Mike
By Jen Kehl of JenKehl.com I just got schooled. I guess I had to be here, in this place. This place of banging my head against the wall trying to parent a wacko/pyro 9 almost 10-year-old. I will start with this admission: I am a total hypocrite. I used to preach no […]
Hungover with Kids (Or Please, Please, Just Kill Me Now)
By Julie Watts of Mummy Spits the Dummy My husband and I had a rare night off for a friend’s wedding this weekend. Since our amazing babysitter (my Mum, unequivocal legend and child-whisperer extraordinaire) was available to stay overnight, we decided to make a weekend of it and spent nearly […]
A Letter to My Stay-at-Home Husband
Dear Husband, While sitting in the empty conference room and eating the pesto linguine you packed for my lunch, I think of your hands, so long calloused and cracked from working in the weekday weather, splintered and split like old leather, now seamlessly chopping garlic and stirring sauces, painting […]
Props to All the Childfree Ladies Fighting With (Not Against) Moms
By M.K. Raley of Mother, Deconstructed Coming out of the Child Coma has been a long, slow process. How many times have you heard that? Well, you hear it because it is true. Just like the New Relationship Coma or the Wedding Year Coma, it is real and it can […]