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Vacation For One
Warm weather is on the horizon. This means parents are starting to think about ideas for a fun summer trip with the kids. The beach? Disney? Camping? But are any of you thinking instead: it would be nice to go on vacation…alone? One mom, Lauren Apfel, wrote about this vacation-for-one concept for the Washington Post.…
9 Things They Don’t Tell You About Labor And Delivery
Relatively speaking, I think I had a fairly easygoing pregnancy. Outside of some pretty bad morning sickness in the first trimester, I remained very mobile and went to work up until it was GO TIME. I didn't have swollen ankles, I wasn't uncomfortably big, and I felt more energetic than I felt tired. So towards the end,…
Teaching Compassion to My Mini-Control Freak
Whod you play with today?
Drugs: A Parent’s Dilemma of Whom To Save
This is a guest post by Lynda Harlos. Please check our her blog I Was The Perfect Parent Then I Had Kids. I would stand with arms crossed in my superior way and think, “my children will never do drugs.” I was totally under the delusion that because I didn’t do drugs and because I was an…
Kindergarten Dilemma: Held Back or Youngest in the Class?
As I limp toward the finish line of summer vacation, I start to cycle through thoughts of my kids being the youngest in their respective classes. And wonder what, if anything, I should do about it.