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by Carolyn Robertson posted in Mom Stories Seventeen-year-old Caitlin Tiller will be graduating from high school this year, just a couple of months after her son celebrated his 1st birthday. But unlike her classmates at North Carolina’s Wheatmore High School, Caitlin won’t have a photo in the year book to look back on. When it [...]

by Katherine Martin posted in Mom Stories Today I saw a post on Facebook about a Connecticut town removing peanuts from their Little League games due to peanut allergies on the team. And I glanced at the comments. They were full of rants against kids with food allergies. Calling them weak and worse. People arguing [...]

If David Laferriere’s amazing sandwich bag art made you feel a little self-conscious about your own school lunch efforts, prepared to be awed by Brooklyn photographer and mom Nina Levy. Each day she includes an original cartoon sketched out on a napkin in her two kids’ lunches. According to Mashable, she takes requests from her [...]

by Betsy Shaw posted in Mom Stories There have been times when I could honestly say I’d rather throw myself off a bridge while sticking needles in my eyes than make another bag lunch. Thankfully, I’ll never have to go through with this threat, because, one dark afternoon in the middle of darkest dreary winter [...]

by Katherine Martin posted in Mom Stories Today I saw a post on Facebook about a Connecticut town removing peanuts from their Little League games due to peanut allergies on the team. And I glanced at the comments. They were full of rants against kids with food allergies. Calling them weak and worse. People arguing [...]

by Joyce Slaton posted in Mom Stories Oh, how very, very tired I am of putting peanut butter and jelly on bread. And oh, how tired my second-grader is of eating it. I do believe I’ve made a PBJ several days a week for the last five years she’s been going to school. How many [...]

by Joey Lombardi posted in Mom Stories For years I have been reading about how American boys are in trouble. What kind of trouble (I asked that myself)? Some statistics are showing that boys are falling behind girls in “grades, participation in advanced classes and graduation rates”. While reading these studies, I think about the [...]

by Nicole Mabry posted in Mom Stories I could kick myself. I think I started something I don’t want to continue. My daughter’s second birthday is today. She wore a special outfit, she got to choose her meals and of course she received presents. Dolls, books, a purse, sunglasses, a tea set – my little girl’s [...]

by Joey Lombardi posted in Mom Stories My wife recently sent me an article published by the New Republic on the state of American daycare systems. It wasn’t positive. Author Jonathan Cohn reports on a variety of daycare scenarios that parents are struggling with due to lack of funds or flexibility. But is the U.S. [...]

by Joyce Slaton posted in Mom Stories Things are getting better with my second-grader, the one who was having so much trouble making friends. And it all started with a casual question someone asked me. Around the middle of the year, when I was so upset at realizing my child was an outcast at school, [...]