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Last year, I made a friend at my older child’s school. We’ll call her Annie. She’s awesome. Her oldest was the same age as C, she had a 6 month old baby too, and then we got pregnant at nearly the same time. Perfect! Friends for all of us! Except that her husband is in [...]

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by Molly Balint posted in Life & Home This morning, I asked my five year-old daughter to help me walk around the house and empty trash cans in the bedrooms and bathrooms. She immediately sunk to the floor whining about how tired she was, and why didn’t anyone else have to help, and how much [...]

There is a Christmas ornament I made in Brownies when I was in first or second grade. It’s a styrofoam star, spray painted gold and festooned with little foil decorations. At the top is a photo of me in my Brownie uniform – complete with beanie perched on unwashed-looking hair – grinning a gap tooth [...]

Can we meet his needs through food alone? Cullen will be a year old next month.  I’ll spare you the commentary about how I can’t believe that’s true, etc. – because I’m sure I’ll be saying it plenty over the next month.  Prepare yourself. Long before he was born, I had made it my goal [...]

Have you ever just looked across the room at your spouse and been flooded by emotion? Me neither, until last night rather unexpectedly. I was catching up on season 4 of Dawson’s Creek on Netflix (a mere 11 years late) while my husband surfed the web for some doohickey for his bike or whatever. By [...]

by Charlie & Andy posted in Mom Stories Originally posted on HowToBeADad.com. Follow Charlie & Andy on Facebook! One of the most frustrating things about parenting is the subject of food and eating. Getting your child to eat, eat well or eat what you make is the stuff of legend. If you’re lucky, some kids [...]

If the photos in parenting magazines are to be believed, everything about having a baby is a soft focus snuggle-fest. Even the shots of concerned looking moms soothing a baby crying his way through the evening witching hour looks sort of idyllic and sweet, like a treasured memory in the making. Those photos do not [...]

Sure, all eyes are on the President this election season, but we’ve got some burning questions for the First Lady, too. She’s certainly made a mark in the last four years, with her healthy living “Let’s Move!” campaign, killer biceps, and the values she teaches her daughters Sasha and Malia as a ...

by Betsy Shaw posted in Mom Stories At the risk of taking the bait, I’m biting. In her recent essay, My Message to Dr. Sears, Nanny Diaries co-author Nicola Krauss does her best to convince us that attachment parenting is just another word for masochism. I’m not an attachment parent, whatever that is, yet still [...]