If you refuse to talk about stricter gun laws, Edwin Lyngar says you’re accepting dead children as the cost of doing business. I can’t stomach the thought of so many dead children in Connecticut. It’s beyond what I can accept as a human being, but I have no solutions for how to stop it. As […]
Lynn Beisner discusses the risks of parenthood in the wake of the deadly Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting. Like most parents, I felt a huge wave of sympathetic grief last week when I learned of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. A friend of mine with children in school called to talk about how anxious she […]
Lynn Beisner shares her method for getting her kids to share (and love) their gender-specific toys. What sensitized me to the problems of gendered toys was not any feminist ideas about how we teach gender. I had yet to be exposed to any of those ideas. What got me thinking about the gender toy trap […]
Lyla Cicero is all for equal parenting, but a part of her still wanted her kids to think of her as #1. Only when my twins were 20 months old did they master the correct use of the words “mama” and “dada.” They took quite a long time to even say these words, despite beginning […]
What works for one parent, may not work for all. But learning from your mistakes should be universal. “In the ’70s, we played outside, ran around, rode our bikes without helmets, and if we talked back to our Dad we got our asses beat. Click like if you think spanking never hurt you.” (Paraphrased from […]
Tina Traster knew early on that something wasn’t right with her adopted daughter, but admitting it meant possibly admitting that she’d made a mistake. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt make it look easy. They adopt kids from all corners of the world and the media broadcasts images of perfect Kodak moments. They’d have you believing […]
This originally appeared on Fem2.0. Republished here with permission. I was born on April 20th, 1984. On June 5th, nearly two months after being placed on an adoption list in Montreal, I met my parents and became Kathleen. I can’t be sure what occurred during the two month gap between my birth and the introduction […]
In an ideal world, your kids would come to you before they have sex, but that’s unlikely. So you may have to beat them to the punch. A common question I hear parents asking is how to give their teenage children access to birth control even if they do not want them having sex yet. […]
Loving kids and going through a pregnancy are not the same thing. “So let me get this straight,” my girlfriend said to me. “You coo at literally every child under 10 that you encounter. You have picked out names for your children, decided which books you’ll read them, and are currently debating homeschooling versus Montessori. […]
This originally appeared on Jerry-Mahoney.com. Republished here with permission. Hey guys, it’s me, Daddy, and I’m only writing this post because you can’t read, you don’t know what a blog is, and because you’re still in that developmental sweet spot where you take everything I tell you at face value. Suckers. Your old man is […]
This originally appeared on the Princess Free Zone. Republished here with permission. Having a kid means understanding that anytime or anywhere you might find yourself in the middle of a very serious and deep conversation. In my experience, one minute you can be talking about a new toy, and the next whether or not you […]
No matter how much you try to protect your children, there will always be things you can not control. Last week, two young children, Leo and Lulu Krim, were allegedly stabbed to death by their nanny in their home in Manhattan. The children’s mother discovered the bodies as Yoselyn Ortega, the nanny, began to hack […]
