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Chickens: the Underrated Pets You Didn’t Know You Needed
Keeping a flock of chickens offers all the richness of adopting one adorable mutt and requires only a fraction of the work.
Why I’m Not Going to Bathe My Kids This Summer
My kids can wallow in their own filth this summer and enjoy every minute of it.
I Drove Myself Crazy Trying to Be the Best at Attachment Parenting
For nine months we studied attachment parenting, And then we actually became parents.
Five Simple Ways to Turn This Summer’s Family Vacation Into an Educational Adventure
Going to new places and experiencing new things are always great ways to foster a love of learning and to enhance your child’s experience.
How would your kids describe dad in just one word?
How would your kids describe dad in just one word? Create deeper connections with the VoiceShare app from WavHello
A Mother’s Random, Contradictory Musings in the Final Week of the Academic Year
Holy crap, I can’t believe it’s the last week of school!! What a shitty spring we’ve had. About damn time summer showed up. Summer will be fun. I look forward to summer. Why am I not feeling excite...
How to Help Your Kid Deal With Conflict on the Playground
Kids need tools to help them resolve the issues they are having. You can send your child to school every day with this toolkit of strategies to help.
The Handy Dad He Didn't Know He'd Need to Become
Parenting a child with special needs requires you to ignore 90 percent of the material out there for "kid tips and tricks."
6 Ways to Steer Your Teen Daughter Toward Total Body Confidence
Although it may seem like an impossible task to promote a positive body image with your daughter, it can be done.
Why Women Should Stop Saying They Are Lucky to Get a Maternity Leave
We need to stop viewing parental leave as a perk and start treating it as a basic workers’ right that millions are currently being denied.
Why Likability Wins Over Status When It Comes to Our Kids' Relationships
What makes a child likable, and how do we steer our kids towards likability instead of the endless, empty pursuit of status?
Let Go of the Guilt, Love Is Enough
Guilt. From the moment our children are born or even when we first feel those little flutters and kicks, it consumes us.
Yep, This Nagging Feeling I Have Toward My Kids’ Grandparents Is Jealousy
I'm jealous my mother's default child-watching emotion is joy. It sure as hell isn't my mine.
Baby Brain Only Minor: How Pregnant Women Can Reduce Its Impact
Many mothers know the term baby brain. It describes the phenomenon of decreased memory during pregnancy. During my pregnancies, I worked well into the third trimester with no problems but did note ...
Staying present took more work this time around, but I still tried to relish the moments of joy between those long, lonely nights.
PTA moms get a bad rap. After recently completing a two year term as PTA president, I feel that it's my duty to come to these moms’ defense.
Measuring the True Cost of Infertility
"Relax, it will happen," isn't the most helpful thing to hear when struggling with infertility. And the pain of it is difficult to measure.
6 Things You Can Do to Guard Your Kids From Sexual Abuse
There is proof that children can be taught skills and knowledge to help them identify risky situations and prevent abuse.
Ending the Cycle of Inherited Fear
Studies show kids with parents who suffer from anxiety are more likely to suffer from it themselves.
The Raddest Things We Found at the JPMA Baby Show
Ever wonder where all those fun, innovative, ingenious parenting and baby products come from? We hunted them down at JPMA.
22 Phrases Instead of "Good Job" Because Seriously, Who Isn't Sick of That?
Pay attention and you’ll hear it everywhere parents and children gather: “You went down the slide, good job!” We're "good jobbing" them into oblivion.
How I’m Rediscovering the Simple Joys of Summer
Summer is in full swing, and if I don’t stop and look around, I might miss it.
How to Entice Your Kids to Write This Summer
Are you concerned about your kids’ writing abilities and want to use the summer to help them improve? These ideas can help.
A Brainstorm of My Worst Parenting Ideas
I’ve never done these things, I will never do these things, I don’t want to do these things. They’re just interesting thoughts.