By Kelly Arnell of Why Did We Have to Have All These Kids Anyway? I know that I should be soaking up the last of the summer sun, enjoying my flip flops and margaritas on the patio while I still can, but I just can’t help but be excited about […]
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Tough Love: Parenting a Non-Affectionate Child with Special Needs
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] By Robin LaVoie of Stay Quirky My Friends I torture my child on a fairly regular basis. Every time I indulge in this behavior, my son’s screams of aggravation and my husband’s entreaties to “stop being so mean” convince me to back off, and I am able […]
On Bullying: When Adults Need to Intervene and Parent Others’ Kids
“You’re such a sore loser and a cry baby. You always cry. See that guys? She’s crying.” I could feel my blood boiling beneath the water’s surface. I could feel my heart racing, pounding inside my chest. Sure, I had just finished swimming 6 or 7 laps, but it was […]
I Survived Without Gender Signs, and You Can, Too
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] Recently, Target elected to remove all gender-based signage, leaving its helpless patrons to aimlessly wander their way through the toy aisles, seemingly lost somewhere in the gender neutral abyss. To put it lightly, people were PO-ed. They took to the Twitterverse and all but condemned the […]
Happy Back to Fall-oween Thanks-mas (or Stop Rushing the Holidays!)
By Carrie Tinsley of Carrie On Y’all It’s the beginning of fall, and I just made a quickie trip to Hobby Lobby to pick up something for the elementary school’s county fair parade float. While this fool’s errand for a ride on a flatbed trailer behind a tractor is bad […]
8 Reasons Why Being a New Mom is Like Playing Pac-Man
By Rachel Whetstone of Increase and Spaghettify Remember Pac-man? I might be showing my age here. For those of you not alive in the 80s, it was an arcade game in which you maneuvered a starving yellow circle through a psychedelic maze of small dots. It was more entertaining than […]
Suicide Prevention: I Tried to Kill Myself with Pills and a Can of Coke
When I was 17-years-old, I tried to kill myself with a bottle of Tylenol, 4 Advil, and a 12-ounce can of Coke. I wrote a four page suicide letter in mint green “gel” ink — a note of explanations and apologies — folded it up, placed it in my right […]
Muscle Memory: Reigniting the Motherhood Spark
By Jennifer Gregory of The Runaway Mama. “Can we do jokes in the morning, Mommy?” my six-year-old asked at bedtime. He wanted to climb into my bed the next morning and wake me up way too early with an arsenal of poorly executed knock knock jokes like he and his […]