In many places across the country, parents and kids are busily preparing for back to school, and soon, teachers everywhere will be making that school supply list, checking it twice, and sending it out to this year’s fresh crop of students, if they haven’t already. (And YES, I did just shudder because as a teacher,…
Fellow Parents: Please Stop Pretending You Know What You’re Doing
By Julianna Mendelsohn Like many folks these days, I have a few group text threads and group Facebook messenger threads running at any given moment. My local mom friends text, book club group DM, and a group DM for fellow admins of a Facebook group I manage, among others. In the past 6 months or so…
My Daughter Is a Liar
By Emily James of emilysarahjames.wordpress.com My 4-year-old is a liar. She tells me things like, “I don’t need to go to the bathroom,” and, “I already blew my nose.” The way she curls her lip, puts her chin down and looks off to the side gives it away, so I’m still safe. But just as…
A Night Owl’s Guide to Raising an Early Bird
By Rebecca Lang of Becky::Rebecca I’m going stop you right here if you’re looking for practical advice on how to manage mornings with early risers when you, yourself, are not a morning person. All of the coffee in the world or clever breakfast hacks prepped the night before won’t change the fact that you’d rather…
Zap Zap Kindergarten Math App Is My New Favorite Thing
This post is sponsored by Zap Zap Kindergarten Math Earlier today I was in desperate need of a shower. My hair was in a greasy perma-tail, and I smelled like burned cinnamon rolls and dirty laundry. Unfortunately, as the mother of a three-year-old and a 5-year-old, I can’t just go hopping in the shower like…
Dear Postpartum Depression: You Are a LIAR
By Lindsay Stauffer Dear Postpartum Depression: You’re brilliant. No really, you are. You let me make it through my first pregnancy completely unscathed, with nothing more than a few days of the baby blues, so that the second time around my guard would be completely down. I never saw you coming. You weren’t even on…
I Don’t Owe You Anything
By Julianna Mendelsohn Like many other transracial adoptive families, when my kiddo and I head out into the world, we tend to get a little more attention than the average mom and baby duo. I’d like to think it’s because she’s disgustingly adorable (she is) or because I am some sort of 36-year-old undiscovered supermodel…
I Chose to Redshirt My Son, But Not for the Reasons You Might Think
By Melanie Forstall Lemoine of Is It Just Me? Stories of Love, Life, and Mothering Our bodies are amazing. When pregnant, I’d say they are miraculous. Less than 72-hours after one romp of unprotected make-up sex, I knew I was pregnant with our second child. Highly unlikely considering I was 36 years old and it was…
How to Be the Best Crappy Tooth Fairy Ever
By Kathryn Leehane Parenting experts want to lecture you on breastfeeding, sleep training, discipline, and all sorts of child-rearing topics. Their unending spew of “helpful” advice can drown you if you’re not careful. Unfortunately they have left several key parenting topics out of their books of lies manuals. Perhaps because the topics are too difficult to tackle. Perhaps…
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