Parenting an anxious kid is like parenting a different species. Those of you who have anxious kids know what I mean. When you are in the trenches with an anxious kid – you better learn to laugh. Not sure you have an anxious kid? Here are some tell-tale signs! […]
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The Kindness Challenge: 12 Ways to Encourage Other Moms
By Samantha Wassel of Between the Monkey Bars Look around the mothering community—both online and off it—and you’ll see it everywhere: Judgment. Mockery. Contempt. Resentment. Cruelty. *Sigh* Mamas, what are we doing to one another? Motherhood is supposed to be a force that unites us, not one that divides us. […]
A Letter to My Eternally Optimistic Child
By Kelly Arnell of Why Did We Have to Have All These Kids Anyway? Dear Middle Child, I don’t know why you are such an optimist, but please, please don’t ever change. No matter what the problem — spilled milk, skinned knee, rainy day — doesn’t matter, your response is […]
4 Reasons Back to School Can Suck My…
By Darla Halyk of New World Mom My least favorite summer month is August. It comes a close second to how I feel about Sundays. I love my day of rest, I really do. But as Sunday progresses into the evening hours, I feel my sense of relaxation disintegrating into […]
Is It Right to be Biased Against the Left?
By Liv of Live By Surprise [nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] If I suggested a specific race or gender was prone to be clumsy, be neurologically disordered, have lower IQs, and have more emotional and behavioral problems, I’m pretty sure I’d be strung up. And if there were suggestions that a […]
8 People I Love to Hate at the Gym
By Marcia Kester Doyle of Menopausal Mother I’m a sucker for those late night weight loss infomercials, and as a result, own a library of workout DVDs and a machine that transforms into a torturous, in-home gym. At first I enjoyed exercising on my own schedule in the privacy of […]
The Infamous Back-to-School Teacher Nightmare
It’s August, fellow teachers. We all know what that means. Back-to-school nightmares. To get us all properly in the spirit, I’ve taken the liberty of combining all of my most hellish sleeping moments into one terrifying nightmare. Warning: the following story contains frightening depictions of classroom settings and occasional foul […]
4 Freedoms After Your Youngest Starts School
By Gizelle Arriola of Dearest Mommy1 The first day of school for your little one can be quite daunting, to say the least. My baby is coming up on her first day of full day kindergarten. Once my youngest starts school, it will be the first time my little girl has been […]