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I realized I used the wrong pronouns. This is what happened next.

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“If you go back,” my twelve-year-old said, “say I’m sorry *if* I mis-gendered you.” By Kim Anton

June 23, 2022 Parenting Challenges

How formula helped me connect with my baby

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The formula recall came days after I quit breastfeeding. By Samantha Schlemm

June 17, 2022 Parenting Challenges

How my kids helped reframe my body image during and after pregnancy

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With my breasts and belly so exaggerated, the rest of me felt diminished. By Jennie Rabinowitz

June 15, 2022 Parenting Guidance

Women can love being moms and still demand change

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As mothers, we are so good at keeping things beautiful and wrapped up in a bow. By Jillayna Adamson

June 9, 2022 Parenting Challenges

Simple Acts: The Busy Teen’s Guide to Making a Difference

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Motherwell talks to advocate Natalie Silverstein about how to get teens to give back.

June 6, 2022 Books

How do we take care of our girls as they move through the world?

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I tell my students: if something feels wrong, it probably is. By Ellen Friedrichs

June 3, 2022 Parenting Challenges

How to break it to kids that the family is moving (or other hard news)

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Be ready to take questions, and try to fill in those blanks before your kid’s imagination does it for you. By Marie Holmes

June 1, 2022 Family, Parenting Advice

After a school shooting, what can we do with our pain?

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I’m running out of fingers on my hands to count the students I’ve lost to gun violence. By Emily James

May 31, 2022 Parenting Challenges

Why our daughters need more heroes like Eleven

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Somewhere deep down, these girls sense that rage is exactly the right thing to feel. By Nan Mooney

May 27, 2022 Culture

Why I feel ambivalent about Mother’s Day

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I want the roses as much as I hate them. By Leslie Stonebraker

May 4, 2022 Parenting Challenges

Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself

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Motherwell talks to Jungian psychologist Lisa Marchiano about her new book, and motherhood as a journey of self-discovery.

April 27, 2022 Books, Parenting Challenges

Here’s why I don’t shame my kid for hitting

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My five-year-old didn’t punch that girl because he’s bad. He did it because she was there. By Laura Wheatman Hill

April 13, 2022 Parenting Challenges

The book that taught me to trust my explosive child

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To stand with your kid, in radical acceptance, is one of the hardest things a parent can do. By Amanda Diekman

April 7, 2022 Books, Culture, Parenting Challenges

How can we help our teens get more sleep?

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They are the “most sleep-deprived group of any individuals the world has ever seen.” By Molly Wadzeck Kraus

April 4, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

How cleaning helps me deal with being a stay-at-home dad

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Vacuuming provides a semblance of safety that I don’t often get when I am with my son. By Tommy Mulvoy

March 30, 2022 Parenting Challenges

Seeing who my child really is, across the basketball court

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My daughter’s emerging identity—the fluidity she wanted to embody—seemed to be taking her away from me. By Shelly R. Fredman

March 24, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Being raised by two moms made me who I am today

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My memories of growing up with gay parents in the early 2000s are fraught, confused, kaleidoscopic. By m.m. gumbin

March 23, 2022 Culture, Family

The book that changed the way I think about my autistic son

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“Autism isn’t an illness. It’s a different way of being human.” By Liz Koch

March 21, 2022 Culture, Parenting Guidance

Learning to walk (alone) again. This time without my kids.

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I was a morning walker well before I was a mother. By Emma Wilkins

March 17, 2022 Family

Let kids wear what they want. It matters more than ever.

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We owe our children safe spaces to adorn themselves with color and material and fit and comfort as they decide. By Kristen H. McLeod

March 10, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Why pregnant women feel the need to keep secrets

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We tell the world about the lives that live, but we hold inside the lives that are lost. By Adrian Rose

March 7, 2022 Culture, Family

If only I could have a mom “room of requirement” like in Harry Potter

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Through the years I’ve gotten rid of sentimental items I would love to see at least one more time. By Kimberly Witt

February 23, 2022 Parenting Challenges

How is it that we’re still asking what stay-at-home moms do all day?

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Having choices, not just careers, is fundamental to feminism. By Liz Sjaastad

February 16, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

How reading so many books about grief helped me through my own

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I wanted to learn how people managed to survive the unthinkable. By Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser

February 2, 2022 Books, Parenting Challenges

Why it’s important for boys to be able to wear their hair long

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My son’s chestnut brown hair flows a foot down his back. By Jesse Curran

January 26, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

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