Is Alexa the Virtual Family Assistant You're Looking For?

by ParentCo.

The shared shopping list is one of the most brilliant features of Amazon Echo. It solves the whole texting and calling back and forth at the grocery store.

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Reflecting on My Milestones of Motherhood

by ParentCo.

I have been merrily, tearily (and often blearily) muddling my way through my motherhood bubble for 3 years. Now I'm about to go back to paid work.

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Middle Aged Parents' Slang Decoded for Teens

by ParentCo.

The Huffington Post recently shared teen slang terms to enlighten middle-age parents. Here are middle-age parents’ slang terms decoded for teens.

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A photo series that shows a more realistic version of impending motherhood

by ParentCo.

Danielle Guenther isn't taking pregnancy photos of moms-to-be silhouetted in their bedroom windows. She's taking them of women barfing in their purse.

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Why Do Babies Cry on Airplanes?

by ParentCo.

Babies do not cry on airplanes for the fun of it either. Nor do they cry, by and large, to let you know that their parents are neglectful or callous.

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"The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up for New Parents" 

by ParentCo.

Best, then, to simplify into only two groups: onesies, and anything that is not a onesie.

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11 Summer Camps Parents Desperately Need to Be Real

by ParentCo.

Hey, kids! Welcome to Camp Holy Crap Please Just Learn How to Ride Your Bike Already! Activities include bike riding, wound dressing, and occasional crying.

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10 Things You'd Actually Be Excited to Find in Your Baby's Diaper

by ParentCo.

Ok, babies, enough with the poop already. Hook us up with something awesome, ok? Please?

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6 Ways My New York City Life Has Changed Since Having A Baby

by ParentCo.

Before I had a baby, I wasn't exactly one of those New Yorkers who searched Time Out for the latest openings. But even for this New Yorker, having a 10-month-old baby changes things.

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The 4 Stages of Accepting That You're a Minivan Family

by ParentCo.

“We’ll have to buy a minivan,” announced my husband, who had been very quiet. And then we just looked at each other and laughed.

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Is Parenthood the Enemy of Creative Work?

by ParentCo.

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10 Ways I’m a Failure According to Mommy Blogs

by ParentCo.

The mommy blogs are silently judging me, but I’m not ashamed to admit that I fail to meet these 10 "basic" requirements for life as a mom.

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4 Words That Can Transform Another Parent’s Day

by Jessica Graham

Next time you see a parent wrangling a crying child or saying "no" for the hundredth time in the toy aisle, say these four words that will change their day.

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"Just A Mom?"

by ParentCo.

Recently a friend confided that she was struggling with being “just a mom.” With four kids, one with special needs, this women is anything but “just a mom.”

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So You Want to Join Our Moms Group?

by ParentCo.

We've been looking for some new blood since Shannon ditched carbs and in turn, us, for CrossFit.

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18 Things People Say at the Office That are Also Euphemisms for Babies Pooping

by ParentCo.

Since I started hanging with fellow baby daddies and mommies, I've heard endless euphemisms for pooping. Here are a few that double as workplace sayings.

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Baby Trashes Bar

by ParentCo.

Go home, baby. You're drunk.

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Even Tiny Babies Are Sellouts

by ParentCo.

Of course they're sell outs! I grew two of them for almost 10 months each in my actual body, pushed them out while wanting to be clubbed over the head, let them treat me like livestock and after all that they'd still move in with their grandparents because they have better snacks.

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Why I Will Keep Fighting Fear as a Parent, Every Day

by Angela Pruess

Allowing fear to take hold of our parenting can prevent us from being the parents we want to be by slowly sabotaging our best-laid goals and intentions.

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No One Told Me That Parenting Would Require Such Thick Skin

by ParentCo.

Kids - keepin’ motherhood real since the beginning of time.

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Books that Please Parents as Much as Preschoolers

by Carrie Howe

Lucky for us parents, there are a lot of absolutely excellent children’s books – ones that can please both kids and the parents who read them.

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We Are That Family

by ParentCo.

We are that loud, shameless, spectacle of a family who seems to bring attention—for better or for worse—to every location we occupy.

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Conversations You Hoped You’d Never Have

by Geraldine Renton

When your eldest son is diagnosed with a rare genetic life limiting condition there are conversations you never thought you’d never, ever have.

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Kids' Grades Can Suffer When Mom Or Dad Is Depressed

by ParentCo.

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