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I had a very complicated relationship with my father. I spent the majority of my life angry at a man who I felt abandoned by. Too bad he wasn’t able to stay alive long enough for me to become a parent myself. I probably would have been a little more forgiving. More
Sometimes I hear news of product recalls and I think, “Great. Another thing for us all to freak out about.” Parenting is hard enough without feeling like every product you buy for your children is potentially a death trap. More
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 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
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
Iām actually quite proud of myself for not allowing my feelings to get (too) hurt. I know my son loves me. I just think he loves his father more (at least right now). Happy Father’s Day, I guess. More
Before his fall, I have always said ākids are supposed to rough themselves up a little!ā but I meant some bad scrapes, some āthank 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
Shortly after my twins were born, I went to a twin momās club meeting held at the home of a member who had twin toddlers. I couldnāt believe how elegant and sophisticated her house wasāwhite loveseats in front of a fireplace, a marble table topped with an enormous plant, a staircase that wasnāt 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, āOh I just try to keep them out of this room and when theyāre in here, itās just a lot of āNo touch! No touch!āā
That was it? āNo touch?ā and you could have a house that didnāt look like a Gymboree inside? Well I was certainly willing to try. More
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
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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
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 āreadā I donāt 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
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
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
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