As a parent, you have those moments when you just HAVE to get out of the house for an adults-only event. A brief respite from booger-wiping and crumb-sweeping. A dinner alone, just the two of you, where nobody has to get up to use the potty right as the food […]
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Mother of 3 Squeezes into Pre-Pregnancy Jeans, Can’t Get Out
By Samantha Wassel of Between the Monkey Bars Lisa Denham, of Cellu Heights, NJ, found herself in a tight spot last week after she successfully put on her pre-pregnancy jeans, only to realize that she couldn’t remove them. “No, I can’t get them off,” the mother of three told us in a […]
Be a Green Slob: Learn How to Save the Environment with Tips from My 9-Year-Old
By Meisha Rosenberg of meisha-rosenberg.squarespace.com Because I care that much about the environment, I’m one of those people who will keep an empty juice bottle in her purse for hundreds of miles on the highway home from vacation, just so I can throw it in the recycling bin. I buy […]
What If There Were iPhone Apps to Help Us Mother?
By Shelby Spear of shelbyspear.com You know those moments in mothering when we smash our palms against our face and drag our fingers down towards our chin, pressing as hard as we can, while stretching our bottom eyelids far enough to reveal the crimson fleshy stuff? The face distorting is […]
Kentucky School’s ‘Adulting Conference’ Teaches Students Basic Life Skills
There’s no doubt that our school system needs an overhaul. As someone who teaches in an American public high school, I can definitively say that for everything we’re doing right — and believe me, there is a lot that we are doing right — there are many more things we […]
‘Heartbeat Bill’ Outlaws Abortion Before Women Know They’re Pregnant
People in the South are fired up after learning that Georgia Senate has approved House Bill 481—a proposal that would outlaw abortions once a doctor detects a heartbeat in the womb (typically around six weeks). Under current Georgia law, abortions can be performed until 20 weeks of gestation, but if […]
How I Gained Control Over Laundry (and You Can, Too, with These Laundry Hacks)
Laundry is the real Neverending Story. Especially if you have a big family. With two adults and three kids in the house, it seems like there is always a mountain of it somewhere, rotting in a corner and pleading to be cleaned. I honestly don’t know how people with bigger […]
24 Relatable Tweets About Working on Your Fitness
Exercise is good for our health… or so they tell us. Getting more exercise is one of my personal and perpetual goals, one that I commit to often and complete never. Like many people, I tell myself that the issue is time. “If only I had more time to exercise,” […]