If you get a boo-boo while visiting my house, you'll have your pick of adhesive bandages to cover your wound: Disney princesses, Doc McStuffins, Thomas the Train, Paw Patrol. You name it; I've got it because placing a band-aid...
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My favorite thing about Jennifer Senior's book All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
is that it doesn't offer one sliver of parenting advice. Instead, it serves as satisfying validation for the challenges...
After my daughter Ilse entered the toddler years, I thought we were done with teething: the long, irritable days of drooling, gnawing on her fingers, and a refusal to eat her regular foods. When Ilse was an infant, I...
Did you know? Children are 3.5 times more likely to be hit by a car and killed on Halloween than on an average day.
With all the fun and festivities of trick-or-treating, it can be easy to forget a frightening...
On her first day of preschool, my daughter Greta wore thirteen ribbons in her hair. She purposely mismatched yellow and pink socks and insisted on wearing her favorite lime green Tinkerbell dress, complete with upright shimmering wings. Needless to...
I recently posted about what I plan to do with myself once my daughter starts preschool. I’m a stay at home mom and to sum it up, the article was about all the self-care I planned for myself, after...
Our longing for children is often a deep primal need, and being unable to conceive or carry a pregnancy to term can be devastating. Many of us feel alone as we struggle to get pregnant, decide the line of...
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When it comes to major life decisions, I think a lot of us (myself included) view our options as a choice between sticking to our current path or embarking on a new one. We...
I sat down with our resident sleep expert, Dr. Sarah Mitchell, on Facebook Live to talk about newborn sleep. In our twenty-minute talk, find out how long the newborn stage lasts and learn tips for creating healthy sleep habits...
It was never about the blue marker. But that's when everything fell apart.
My son was four and had recently started preschool, where each new day brought a steady stream of new acquaintances and experiences — some thrilling and others...
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