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I looked at moms with older babies and toddlers and thought to myself as I watched them raise their voices to their kids or give their high-chair spawn French fries or let them pick their noses in public that I WILL NEVER BE LIKE THESE PEOPLE.
And I’m still not. More
It’s easy to romanticize the past, to talk about a simpler time or how our parents did this and that and we turned out fine. But Friday’s piece by Therese Oneill in The Atlantic sheds some light on 19th and 20th century parenting, and how doctors in the good ole’ days were often just as misinformed as some of the whack-job “experts” lining our bookshelves in modern times. More
Two provocative and thought-provoking pieces yesterday represented each extreme in the debate over whether ADHD is a “real” problem, but both missed out on the most empowering point of view. It’s up to parents to be the strongest advocate for their child’s mental health. More
I love listening to people who don’t have children talk about raising children. I’m not being facetious. I really like a childless person’s perspective on parenting. Parenting is so all-consuming, you sometimes forget what it’s like to not be doing it. Focusing on it. Focusing on your child. Sometimes it’s refreshing to be smacked awake by someone who is not in a perpetual parental fog. Sometimes it’s nice to have someone say, What the hell are you doing? More
When Heidi Murkoff published What To Expect When You’re Expecting in the 80s, there was almost no parenting advice for naive and innocent young parents to fret over. Murkoff wrote her first book because she found herself unexpectedly pregnant and couldn’t find a “no nonsense guide” to help answer her questions. But now that her own daughter Emma is a mother, her best piece of advice is to skip all the self-help books and mommy forums. More
Our partners over at The Chopra Well have a new show called “Perfectly Imperfect Parents.” Their episode about bullying got me thinking: Is it ever OK to teach your kids to fight violence with violence? More
You know how everyone says that eventually we all turn into our mothers? Well, they’re right. My mom has eternally baffled me by insisting that I will catch a cold if I expose my chest to cool air in the winter. Where’s your scarf? Cover up! You’re going to catch a cold! Being the logical being that I am, I have always countered with, Mom, colds are caused by viruses, not cold air. Then I became a mother. During the coldest NYC winter days, my child and I basically became shut-ins because I was sure he would catch a cold if I took him out. More
A few months ago, I read the book Bringing Up Bebe, by Pamela Druckerman. It’s about a mother who leaves the scurried pace of New York to raise her child in Paris and be amongst all of the women who don’t get fat and parents that know how to do it all. I was sure I would hate it. More
I’d just like you all to see what made it’s way into my inbox today. It’s the press release for the next big parenting controversy. It even name-checks one of the last big parenting controversies, just so you know that it’s serious. More
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Remember when your kids were growing up and you inflicted physical pain over something they did to punish them? That’s beating. It exists. You did it. More
Jude Bijou is a respected psychotherapist with an MA, an MFT, and multiple published self-help books. And she thinks you need to start taking behavior advice from your toddler. Nope, I’m not kidding. More
Things got a little heated in the Mommyish offices today. While discussing an upcoming interview about helping parents learn to control their anger, Lindsay Cross and Eve Vawter found themselves debating whether there’s any excuse, or any cure, for a parent who lets stress and frustration lead to “blowing your stack” with your kids. More
It’s that time of year. Everyone’s deciding whether they’re going to join a gym or start a diet or finally ask their boss for that raise. I have plenty of life goals that I could label as New Year’s Resolutions for the next couple of weeks. Instead, I have a very simple resolution that I think desperately needs some attention. I want to stop worrying so much about my parenting. More
When it comes to motherhood, I think there really is an “A” for “Effort.” More
