The best advice we got as new parents was to not put much stock in parenting advice. Five years ago, when Stevie and I found out we were going to be parents, the first good, usable piece of parenting advice we received was this: “Take all parenting advice with a grain of salt. Everyone thinks […]
A new study finally proves that working mothers are actually assets to a business, not liabilities. If you ask any working mother with babies or young kids, she’ll probably tell you that she feels like she’s failing in all of her roles—tired and checked out at the office, distracted and over-extended at home. She may not […]
Parenting young children is about molding them. Parenting young adults is about accepting them. When I became a mother, I pored over the book What To Expect When You Are Expecting. And then for the next year, I was glued to the follow up, What To Expect The First Year. Sadly, most parenting books end […]
I might be working from the couch in my pajamas, but it’s real work. So, no, I can’t make it to that mid-day play date. I’ve been working for myself exclusively from home for over a decade, my home office morphing from a sliver of kitchen niche, to a shoved in desk in the second bedroom, to, […]
What I really wanted to write on the birth announcement was, “I love my daughter, but I miss my husband terribly. There is a hole in my heart where our twosome once was. What have we done?” The lie started with the birth announcement: “We are already very much in love.” This was the script; what we were […]
On the way to a meeting with the kindergarten teacher, my son asked: “Does my teacher know about the secret jewel inside me?” “Hi, Avery,” I heard my daughter’s friend Crystal call out earlier this summer. Clad in a pink tank shirt and blue skirt, Avery’s hair cupped her chin. Avery waved, and turned back to the […]
Women are vastly under-represented in children’s media. But while we wait for new books and movies to come out with strong female protagonists, what should we do? There is no question that we are in desperate need of more children’s books that feature female protagonists. The same is true for film and television. The statistics […]
My husband and I both brought children from previous relationships to our marriage. So we’re often stuck with labels like “blended,” “non-traditional,” and “step family.” But none of those is accurate. A Saturday morning in our house is filled with a standard dose of workweek exhaustion paired with weekend elation and the rowdy rumblings of three […]
