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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
This Guy’s Starbucks Complaint Is for Everyone with Persnickety Bowels
Who among us hasn’t been out in public, eaten something that didn’t sit right with our digestive tract, and battled the impending poop sweats in a desperate attempt to make it to an acceptable restroom before we poopocalypsed in our pantaloons? Well, this is what I imagine happened to Demit […]
23 Funny Memes That Perfectly Capture the Hell of Family Vacation
Family vacations sound great in theory. But then there’s the packing, and the complaining, and the actual traveling, and the complaining, and the spending money on overpriced amenities, and the complaining, and the incessant nagging from children, and the complaining, and the need for a vacation after your vacation once […]
35 Ways to Embarrass Your Teen
I have been cataloguing for the last several weeks what has annoyed my teenagers about me. It might have been easier to list those items that didn’t bother them, like giving them money and letting them stay up late. OK, that’s done. But, I wore that pencil down to a […]
Happy Father’s Day to the Single Moms
By Heidi Hamm Yes, I’m going there. Before you naysayers get all up in arms about how Father’s Day is meant for all the great dads out there and not moms, just hear me out. I get it. I hear you. There are some amazing fathers out there who should […]
6 Life Lessons My Teenage Boys Have Taught Me
By Crystal Hill of Simplify Mommyhood I was terrified to raise teenagers. I always knew that my little baby boys would grow up, but I didn’t want them to. I felt like I could relate to, talk with, and effectively discipline toddlers and preschoolers. I did not think I’d be […]