By Jocelyn Cox of The Home Tome Sometimes my husband and I talk about having a second child. Then I remember: pregnancy. Which causes me to remember, among other physical discomforts, heartburn. Truthfully, heartburn is the perfect descriptor for that burning sensation in your chest that escalates during pregnancy. But […]
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Parents: We Need to Stop Projecting onto Our Kids
The “mini me” complex. We are all guilty of it at some point. We become parents, and a minute later we are projecting all over the nursery. “My poor child has the same fat legs as I did.” “My child is as stubborn as I was.” “My child will […]
Hey, Honey. Stop Sleeping and Help Me Parent!
By Navarre Overton of Raising Revolution Honey, As per your well-meaning but entirely clueless advice, I tried to nap with the toddler today. But instead of getting some much needed rest, I tossed and turned for 20 minutes before I started writing this to you. I’m not stubborn or lacking […]
The Right to Bear Balls: A Look at the 2nd Amendment
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] By Anonymous DAY ONE: Melvin began to get rough while playing ball at my daycare today. He started throwing the ball at all the other kids. To fix it, I gave all the kids balls to throw at him. If I took the ball away, he […]
How Being a Hippie Taught Me How to Parent
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] By Gina Sampaio of Sister Serendip Right after college, while I was still young and foolish, I decided to be a hippie for a little while. I didn’t go whole hog. I mean, I never changed my name to, like, Celestial Butterfly or anything. One of […]
Lost In Translation: Do You Speak Toddler?
By Rachel McDougall of Toilets Aren’t For Turtles While both my kids have pretty good language skills for their ages, there are a few things that I’m still struggling to help them understand. Perhaps I need to learn to speak toddler? Despite my best and most patient attempts, the following […]
I Don’t Usually Let the Kids Play with My Sex Toys. It’s Just…
By Darla Halyk of NewWorldMom I’m just going to blurt it out: I have a vibrator (or 3.) I don’t think they’re called vibrators; maybe dildos? I don’t know. What I do know is one of them has a face on it. Creepy, right? The reason, or so I was […]
10 Things to Know Before Your Kid Starts Fall Kindergarten
By Gina Sampaio of Sister Serendip 1. My kid is going to teach your child a bad word. Maybe not of the four-letter variety, but she’s sort of an expert at stringing together verbs and body parts until she gets a combination that gets a charge out of her four […]