Because soon enough, the world will tell them differently. There’s a trend in parenting to compliment our children’s abilities rather than their appearance. A recent Daily Telegraph article states, “Parents should stop telling their children they look beautiful because it places too much emphasis on appearance and can lead to body confidence issues later in life.” Despite my foibles […]
Along with exercise, healthy eating, trendy charcoal face masks, monthly pedicures, and nightly book reading, this therapy helped me take care of myself. It helped me take care of my kids better. “…I believe functional parenting is the secret to world peace. And the only way to make functional parents is to heal psychological wounds […]
What I want is for women’s choices regarding fertility to be supported, full stop. I want our privacy respected. About a week after my daughter was born, I was nursing her on the couch for the literal 11th hour in a row. She had weight gain issues at the beginning of her life, had lost […]
How to deal with an unbearable situation. We tend to think of parenting as a happy endeavor. Even though research tells us that in most countries, people with kids are less happy than those without, we know that we have the one-up on those childless couples because we are fulfilled! But what if parenting isn’t fulfilling for you? Or what […]
A new national study reveals that more and more women are interested in parenting outside of the traditional family model. At 31, with a successful career as an author and artist, Lauren Brim felt her life was near perfect. “I was working for myself and making art,” she told Washington Post reporter Britany Robinson. “I had great […]
Smashing the patriarchy has to start somewhere. I didn’t spend a lot of time worrying about whether my kids would be sexist when they were younger. Like many new parents, I was convinced that nurture would win out and my kids would grow up with open minds and hearts. I’m a rape survivor, and I […]
The U.S. president’s behavior is often at odds with the values we are working to instill in our children. So how do we explain Trump to our kids? In her new book, How Do I Explain This to My Kids: Parenting in the Age of Trump, child psychologist Dr. Ava Siegler brings together stories by authors and […]
For those considering IVF, much like becoming a parent, nothing can prepare you for this journey and everyone’s journey is different. For the first year of my child’s cellular existence, he lived in a deep freezer. We let him multiply a bit, and then stuck him in like a Klondike bar. Don’t worry, he wasn’t […]
