By Casey Desrochers I’m a mom with scars. I don’t mean emotional scars (though I definitely have those, too). I don’t mean a c-section scar. My pregnancy, labor, and delivery were all textbook perfect—so perfect that I never want to do it again. But no, I mean scars that I inflicted on myself during a stage […]
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Mom’s Tragic Warning About The Danger Of Kids Sleeping In Car Seats
Lisa Smith got the call at work no parent should ever have to receive. Her 17-month-old daughter Amelia (Mia) had gone down for her nap at her dayhome and failed to wake up. On June 10, 2015, Mia’s longtime babysitter, who ran a licensed home daycare in Iowa, put the toddler down to nap in […]
AAP Cracks Down On Spanking In New Statement: “Parents Should Never Hit Their Child”
A new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics is cracking down on the use of spanking as a way to discipline kids. 20 years ago pediatricians were encouraging parents to find other ways to get their kids to behave—they still are. While it is ultimately up to the parent to decide how to […]
Why Should You Vent?
By Dana Basu of Everything But Crazy Why should you vent? I lost my cool today. It wasn’t a big thing, just the usual suspects: having a timeline, running late, the baby crying, multiple family members asking me to do things all at once, and everyone getting in my way as I attempted to complete those […]
World’s First Non-Binary Baby Proves that Gender is a Spectrum, Not a Box to Tick
By Heather Jones of hmjoneswriter.com How old were you when you realized you were a boy or a girl? For most of us, this is an uncomplicated question. We were assigned one or the other at birth based on our external genitalia, we were raised with the social constructs that generally accompany the sex we […]
5 YO Boy Rushed to Hospital After Ingesting Meth While Trick-or-Treating
A 5-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital after having a seizure following Halloween festivities on Sunday. Doctors found methamphetamine in a urine sample collected upon arrival. Braylen Carwell, of Galion, OH, had just returned from an evening of trick-or-treating when his mother, Julia Pence, noticed something was off before her son collapsed: “The left […]
Born in a Bathroom at the Happiest Place on Earth
By Heather Jones It was an ordinary day in October, 2004, when my coworker Tammy walked into the infant room at the daycare in which we both taught, carrying a newborn baby. “Who is this?” I asked. “This is my son, Michael,” she answered. The day became remarkably less ordinary. I had worked alongside Tammy […]
How I Finally Got My Kids to Listen to Me
By Gila Pfeffer of The Mom Who Knew Too Much My kids have selective hearing. You won’t find this fact surprising because your kids or any others you’ve encountered likely have selective hearing, too. Basic, repeated requests such as, “Please shut the refrigerator door” or “Don’t leave your wet towel on the floor” go ignored unless […]