By Jessica Cobb of Domestic Pirate “Kids these days, am I right? If only their parents raised them this way, that way, or upside down like the way I was raised. I turned out perfectly fine!” We bitch about kids who don’t have to accept the consequences of their actions. […]
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20 Reasons I am Jealous of My Toddler
By Nicole Hardy of She Emerges Last December my youngest daughter turned three, and I thought it would be a hallelujah moment. It was the end of the terrible twos, and let me tell you, they were terrible. But three somehow seemed worse. She became more defiant and pushed boundaries […]
Death Is Trending
By Briton Underwood of Punk Rock Papa I want to be funny. I scan through the trending topics on social media, looking for a red cup fiasco or, at the very least, a child falling into an animal pit. Instead I find photographs and stories of senseless murder. I see […]
A Letter to My Sensitive Son
By Megan Stonelake of Empathic Parenting My sweet boy, I lied to you last week. When we were driving in the car, and there was nothing but the road and our thoughts to keep us company, you asked me some hard questions. I could tell your brain was grappling with […]
9 Pokemon Go Characters Every Mom Can Identify With
By Serena of Mommy Cusses They say curiosity killed the cat. By they, I mean all parents who are still sans Pokémon Go, free to waste a few moments mindlessly scrolling through their phones without a child snatching it out of their hands. Recently, I have submitted to the wildly […]
Minecraft Is Educational (and Other Ways I Justify Excessive Screen Time)
Summer! Time to get out of the house and ride bikes and take nature walks and make bucket lists and catch worms and have lemonade stands. …Or watch a hell of a lot of TV and iPad. Do you fall into one of these two categories? What’s your “policy” on […]
5 Times My Toddler Accidentally Insulted Me
By Kelsey Scholz of WhoPoopedTheTub.com Just the other day, my daughter told me that my panties were “so big and beautiful, like a princess!” I was unsure which Disney classic features princesses in large parachute style panties, so I tried to focus on the “beautiful” and ignore the “big.” Considering the […]
My M-O-M Parenting Philosophy
By Rachel Bowers of Full Motherhood Are you AP? RIE? Positive Parent? Tiger mom? Elephant mom? I am so tired of us moms boiling down motherhood to one parenting approach. Is there a sloth mom? I would love to know because I am definitely the sloth mom some days. Well, […]