By Michelle Riddell If the international powers that be are worried about 21st century America taking over the world (even after this election season), they needn’t look any further than the warning labels on kids’ products to ease their minds. Just yesterday, I parted the spider webs in our shed […]
By Mia Carella of thismomwithablog.com Ever since my adolescent years, I have been a huge fan and advocate of sleep. In high school, I would look forward to an afternoon nap and sleeping in on weekends. In college, my love of sleep and napping grew stronger. When my roommate and I […]
By Rhiannon Giles of rhiyaya.com It really did happen. I have to remind myself sometimes that it was not just a story I heard—not a story that happened to somebody else. I really did start bleeding at 29 weeks pregnant. The words, “placental abruption” and “in case we have to deliver,” […]
Screenshot: Kobe Bryant Instagram Kobe Bryant took to Instagram to announce his wife, Vanessa, is pregnant with their third girl. The moms of the world have long admired this couple for their 15-year marriage and their two adorable daughters. But Vanessa in particular deserves special praise for the pregnancy, because she found time […]
By Rachel Perkins of thewelladjustedadult.com The decision to have more children should probably be approached with even more consideration than the choice to have one child. For some people, the choice is made for them via medical complications making it impossible or a drunken night away from the kid resulting in […]
By Michelle Riddell This is a story about a mother, a daughter, and a rest area bathroom. The mother and daughter are together in a stall, the daughter clearly in distress: her first period. She knows what is happening to her in a clinical, puberty-filmstrip sort of way, but mostly […]
By Andrea Rosas Howe of The Howe To Blog I was chatting with the other moms about summer plans. Our family’s plans included little more than long, lazy days at the beach and some ballet lessons. “What else?” one mom asked expectantly. [adsanity id=”35664″ align=”aligncenter”/] “That’s it,” I responded, garnering a […]
By Thom Hofman of daddymediumwell.wordpress.com Cayden is obsessed with the digital sphygmometer that is blister-packed and hanging to the left of the pharmacy counter. A sticker on the front of the package shows a digital metric of a heartbeat—or maybe a blood pressure read-out (I’m not a doctor)—with systolic and diastolic […]