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Wellbeing

8 Ways to Get Your Kids to Eat More Than Just Cheese Puffs

by ParentCo.

In my efforts to get my kids to eat right, I’ve failed more times than I’ve succeeded, but I have succeeded on occasion.

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Wellbeing

How Focused Attention Can Help Our Kids Battle Stress and Anxiety

by Sandi Schwartz

With focused attention we can actually change the physical structure of our brain.

Wellbeing

The True Weight of 300 Pounds

by Brynn Burger

More fit people look at me when we're at the park with our kids and their glances to me feel like 1000 pounds of judgment.

Wellbeing

Does Your Kid Have Constant Heel Pain? It Could be Severs Disease

by ParentCo.

Sever’s disease, also known as Calcaneal apophysitis, is the most common cause of heel pain in children.

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Parenthood

The Obvious Question When Your Kids are 35 Years Apart

by ParentCo.

“No, they’re both my sons,” I answered as his eyes widened. It happens every time people begin to understand that I have kids whose ages are 35 years apart.

Wellbeing

5 Ways to Create Intimacy Without Taking Your Clothes off

by Pam Moore

While it’s the rare marriage that thrives without sex, she says there are many ways to be intimate without it.

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Parenthood

A Parent Primer on How to Deal With Bullies

by ParentCo.

It’s time to get a refresher on how to train our kids to stand up to bullying and how to advocate for them.

Inspiration

Determination and the Will to Live

by ParentCo.

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Parenthood

Be a Guide, Not a Guard and Raise a Happy, Responsible Kid

by ParentCo.

As guides, we help children develop internal motivation to do what is right because it’s right, rather than to do what is right to avoid being punished.

Wellbeing

Selected Instructions for Helping Non-Babies Fall Asleep (Based on Advice for Babies)

by ParentCo.

It turns out the techniques parents use to get baby to sleep can be more widely applied to ... just about anyone!

Parenthood

Now That My Kids Are Big: 25 Things I Will Never Have to Do Again

by ParentCo.

I have to remind myself that it wasn’t all sunny days and cuddle-time. I have to remind myself that every phase of motherhood has its joys and challenges.

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Inspiration

My 4-foot, 11 inch Mother is the Biggest Person in Any Room

by ParentCo.

If my parents had stayed in the Bronx, I might have grown up thinking my family was like all the rest.

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Wellbeing

Determined...to Lighten Up

by ParentCo.

Parenthood

4 Ways We Can Shift Our Language to Support Kids' Emotional Intelligence

by Sanya Pelini

Whether or not we validate our kids’ emotions will ultimately have an impact on their ability to manage those emotions well beyond the childhood years.

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Wellbeing

Why Turning Your Clocks Back Gives Your Brain A Boost

by ParentCo.

Getting that spark of natural light first thing in the morning can bring several welcome benefits to our body and mind this time of year.

Inspiration

If These Scars Could Talk

by ParentCo.

I’m grateful for my scars. Each blemish has a story. Without my stories – and my scars – who would I be?

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Parenthood

There’s No Crying in Parenting

by Brynn Burger

At no point in my 34 years of life had I ever been so...I want to say humbled, but the more accurate word here is humiliated.

Wellbeing

When One "Snore" Closes, Another Door Opens

by ParentCo.

People fall apart over money, stress, jobs, lies, but not freaking snoring, unless the issue is of course not about snoring at all.

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Parenthood

Like Water on Waves

by ParentCo.

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Wellbeing

Women vs. Other Women and the Myth of the Zero-Sum Game

by Michelle Ridell

While she’s waiting, she begins to question the very worth of this victory: If she’s so triumphant why is she alone?

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Wellbeing

The Old Normal, and the Imperative of Self-Defense Training for Women

by ParentCo.

In light of the countless high-profile assault charges recently meted I challenge us, individually, collectively, indivisibly, to say no. To scream no.