By Carrie Tinsley of Carrie On Y’all I can make this funny, I thought. Sure, I’m a little scared, but I’ll be okay. The nervous-mother-of-three in the gun store making sarcastic observations just has to be comical. In early June — before the nightmare mass shooting in Orlando, before the […]
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At the Stroke of Midnight, Everything Will Turn Into a Pumpkin
It’s August 31st, and you know what that means: at the stroke of midnight tonight, everything will turn into a pumpkin. It’s like that scene in Cinderella when the fairy godmother transforms the orange gourd into a carriage–only in reverse–and in this story, Cinderella is a millenial hipster and the fairy […]
What Brock Turner’s Release Means for Parents
By Whitney Fleming of Playdates on Fridays Brock Turner gets released from jail Friday, September 2, 2016, after serving three months in Santa Clara County jail. For those of you not familiar, Mr. Turner, a scholar athlete and Olympic swimming hopeful, was convicted in March of three felony counts: assault with […]
Why Is Potty Training So Effing Hard?
I wish I had more control over this. I wish I had more control over their bodily fluids. (Actually, I wish they had more control of their bodily fluids.) I wish I had more control over my reactions to the news that said bodily fluids have exited their bodies, an event […]
Colin Kaepernick: Un-American or True American?
Colin Kaepernick, quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, is the new John Carlos or Tommie Smith of 1968. Carlos and Smith raised a fist in support of the Black Power movement during the playing of our national anthem at the Olympic Games that year. Two athletes who benefited from the rights […]
Sack Lunches and Tears
By Valerie Glover of The Snarkicist The kids went back to school last week and my 4-year-old, Bianca, just started kindergarten. On her first day of school, she was a little nervous getting ready in the morning, but she was a champ when we dropped her off. No clinging, went straight […]
I Wasn’t Happy As a Mom Until I Was Something Else, Too
By Amanda Elder of Stay-at-Home Panda As my husband was leaving for work today, the baby was sleeping, our preschooler was playing, and I was sitting down to write. Jokingly he said, “Alright, enjoy your day of leisure while I’m off slaving.” I looked at him and said, “I really […]
Popular Facebook Post Shows How Unopened Wedding Present Helped a Marriage
Earlier this week, Love What Matters — a website, podcast series, and social media movement which has dedicated its various platforms and pages to celebrating the “moments in life that matter” — shared a beautiful, yet honest, post about love and marriage and everything in between. In fact, the story, submitted […]