Topic: Childrearing

STFU Parents: Cheers To Funny Dads On Facebook For Father’s Day

STFU Parents: Cheers To Funny Dads On Facebook For Father's Day

I also enjoy submissions written by dads because men seemingly “discover” things about parenthood that they never expected more often than moms do. I get the impression that mothers anticipate the diaper rashes, constipation, placenta cookbooks as baby shower gifts, and even the occasional baby boner. Since men don’t appear to share the same level of anticipation, their updates tend to read as pure comedy. More »

Aaron Sorkin Writes Sweet Father’s Day Letter To His Daughter, Sort Of Admits He’s Screwing Up

Aaron Sorkin Writes Sweet Father's Day Letter To His Daughter, Sort Of Admits He's Screwing Up

Aaron Sorkin may have caught a lot flack for his depiction of ladies in The Social Network, but in an open letter to his young daughter Roxy, the father suggests that he’s quite attuned to at least some of the plight of growing up female. More specifically, raising his daughter in a hotbed of body issues, hyper plastic surgery, wealth obsession, and all within the shadow of the ever looming entertainment industry. As a Los Angeles native, I made it out pretty well-adjusted so I guess it’s possible for young girls. More »

Anonymous Mom: I’m Raising My Son Catholic But We’re Not Ignorant Bible-Thumpers

Anonymous Mom: I’m Raising My Son Catholic But We’re Not Ignorant Bible-Thumpers

My husband and I both grew up in families that regularly attended church, but our attendance waned as we got older. By the time we met, neither of us had attended church in years. We decided that if we were going to raise a family, it was important that we start going to church again. Two weeks after we got married, we found a church and have gone almost every Sunday since. More »

I’m No Longer A Free Range Mom After My 4-Year-Old Broke His Elbow

I'm No Longer A Free Range Mom After My 4-Year-Old Broke His Elbow

Before his fall, I have always said ā€œkids are supposed to rough themselves up a little!ā€ but I meant some bad scrapes, some ā€œthank goodness he was wearing a helmetā€ moments, and a lot of crying as they learned their safety lessons the hard way. I never imagined that scene in the operating room and the days that followed. Though I never thought I would be a hovering overprotective mom, the chance that something terrible could happen in an instant is now too real for me to ignore. More »

Twinning: I Thought I Could Get Away With Not Baby Proofing My House

Twinning: I Thought I Could Get Away With Not Baby Proofing My House

Shortly after my twins were born, I went to a twin mom’s club meeting held at the home of a member who had twin toddlers. I couldn’t believe how elegant and sophisticated her house was—white loveseats in front of a fireplace, a marble table topped with an enormous plant, a staircase that wasn’t flanked with baby gates. It was hard to imagine that even one child lived there. I had to ask her how she kept her house looking so beautiful with twins running around and she said, ā€œOh I just try to keep them out of this room and when they’re in here, it’s just a lot of ā€˜No touch! No touch!ā€™ā€

That was it? ā€œNo touch?ā€ and you could have a house that didn’t look like a Gymboree inside? Well I was certainly willing to try. More »

Deric Lostutter Was Raided By The FBI For His Involvement In The Steubenville Rape Case – Here’s What His Mother Thinks

Deric Lostutter Was Raided By The FBI For His Involvement In The Steubenville Rape Case - Here's What His Mother Thinks

I worry. I wouldn’t be his Mom if I didn’t. I also have faith. Faith in God, and faith in people. Faith that they will stand up with my son, and give those who feel they have no voice, a loud one.

I’m sure I’m not the only parent who feels this way, but she has raised a remarkable young man and she should feel extremely proud of who he has become. More »

Study Says Australian Kids Of Same-Sex Families Are Doing Awesome, Thanks

Study Says Australian Kids Of Same-Sex Families Are Doing Awesome, Thanks

For all the sturm und drang about children of same-sex families somehow being deficient in (fill in the blank), the research certainly doesn’t seem to back that claim up. In fact, according to “the world’s largest study on the children of same-sex parents,”Ā these kids are doing just as well kids of straight families. And dare I say, some are even doing better. More »

Anonymous Mom: I Regret Getting My 4-Year-Old’s IQ Tested

Anonymous Mom: I Regret Getting My 4-Year-Old's IQ Tested

Somewhere in the flurried memories of all that volunteering, about six months before my daughter was to begin kindergarten, I discovered she could already read. And when I say ā€œreadā€ I don’t just mean Dick and Jane books. I mean ANY book. I had a 4-year old who brought juvenile fiction home from the library and read it out loud to me. With expression!

And that is when I made the helicopter parent move that I regret to this day. More »

Twinning: There’s No Milestone Race

Twinning: There’s No Milestone Race

Everything you read or hear on the subject will stress that you should never, ever compare your twins unless you are trying to ruin their lives or win an award for Worst Twin Parent. While it seems logical that babies who are exactly the same age should be able to master the same skills around the same time, that of course is not the case, for fraternal as well as identical twins. More »

Fresh To Fatherhood, Channing Tatum Compares Dexedrine And Adderall To Cocaine And Crystal Meth

Fresh To Fatherhood, Channing Tatum Compares Dexedrine And Adderall To Cocaine And Crystal Meth

New dad Channing Tatum hasn’t been parenting for long but he’s already got some strong childrearing opinions. His big issue at present? Medicating children. Channing’s daughter Everly may only be three days old but papa vows that he won’t ever medicate his kid for learning disabilities. That’s all fine and dandy until he fashions his decisions for his own family into more broad statements about drug consumption. You know how this ends. More »