Michelle Kaye
Michelle Kaye is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and mother of two children. She holds a post-graduate certificate in infant-parent mental health. Michelle lives in Pacifica and works as a Clinical Director at a nonprofit in San Francisco. She recently published a humorous parenting book titled Better Than Good Enough that can be found online at https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57565793-better-than-good-enough?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=oHygnAZ8Wb&rank=1.
DC League of Super-Pets, A Movie Review
My kids and I were lucky to attend a pre-screening event for the new Warren Brothers picture DC League of Superpets. We love going to the movies, even when we aren't excited about what...
This Mother is Proud to Support Safe Access to Abortion
My first child was born when I was twenty-nine. I was married and financially stable, had supportive friends and family, and had years of child development training for my career. I had been caring...
Our Parents Weren’t Wrong About Everything
A few weeks ago, I was chatting with another parent about his experience with his son's preschool. I knew a little about this preschool from other friends, and I was always curious about their...
The End to An Abundance of Caution Parenting
As we close out the second year, we all have pandemic-era phrases that trigger us. Those words and phrases you had never heard before March of 2020 now send chills down your spine. I...
What Maid Shows Us About Mothers
Like 67 million people across the globe, I binged the Netflix limited series Maid in just a week. The series is loosely based on a memoir by Stephanie Land titled Maid: Hard Work, Low...
Parenting with Omicron and Rage: Send Help!
We are so over this. We have been pandemic parenting for nearly two years, and here we are once again, canceling and being canceled. We're home alone with our kids, in the winter, in...
It Shouldn’t Be This Hard
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with fifteen years of experience working with children and families. I’m also a mother of two. In my professional life, I spend a lot of time talking...
Lesson Two: Don’t Panic
As the pandemic continues to unfold, I will be spending the next months reflecting on the lessons we have learned in the past year and a half. Lessons such as 1) there is no...
Lesson One: We’re Going To Need a Bigger Band-Aid
“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can...
An Extrovert During a Pandemic
“I’m going to miss not being able to use COVID-19 as an excuse to cancel plans. I have gotten really comfortable being alone.”
Over the seventeen months, we have heard this sentiment a lot. The...
