By Eileen Turay of Liv & Leen It’s so easy to look at parents before you become one yourself and have 27,834 thoughts that start with, “When I’m a mom, I’ll never….” And then you become a mom, and you do _____, _____, and _____, proving yourself wrong 27,834 times. […]
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A Parent, a Pool, and a Case of Mistaken Identity
We all start out this parenting gig with pretty much zero experience, right? I mean, it’s total on-the-job training when it comes to learning how to feed, clean, and otherwise maintain these little human beings that are dependent on us for their very lives. No pressure! For example, before I had […]
20 Reasons My Toddler is Celebrating the Return of School
By Natasha Daniels of Anxious Toddlers The return of school. The house cleared out. I am exhausted. My feet are breaded with Cheerio dust, but it is over. I now have 10 months alone. Well, almost alone – there is my toddler – the last hurrah. My toddler is doing […]
10 Reasons Birth Plans are Stupid
By Sarah Pierce of Midwest Mummy I’ll just come right out and say it: birth plans are stupid. You can pretend that you’re in charge, or you can understand that at a certain point, your body takes over, and whatever you’re planning no longer matters. Here’s what my plan was: […]
Why I Want My Gay Son to be Like Neil Patrick Harris
I have been mistaken as gay many times. I’ve even been asked if I was gay when sitting with my wife in public, which might make you wonder what I was even doing to be asked such a personal question. Has this ever bothered me? Not at all. Along with […]
Why Do We Expect So Little?
By A. R. Amore of The Plagued Parent This week I had a new walkway installed. The old walk was 13 years old and put in by yours truly. Over time it buckled and sank thanks to a maple tree — a much hated maple tree that my wife will not […]
Rocket Math (or Why Homework Sucks)
By Gina Sampaio of Sister Serendip So, uh . . . you got kids? Do they go to school? Are they old enough to have homework? Do they have . . . Rocket Math? Or Mad Minutes? Or some other kind of name that attempts to disguise a timed (read: stressful […]
Depression Didn’t Steal My Summer
By Kristina Hammer of The Daily Rantings of an Angrivated Mom Here it is, August already, and I have no idea how we got here. Summer is coming to an end before I even settled in to its peaceful lack of school schedules and routines. There was so much I wanted […]