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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

Teaching my kids how to make focaccia helped my family find peace

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There’s power in knowing you can do something creative, even in a world turned upside down. By Sarah Walker Caron

January 24, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Is it ever okay to comment on your child’s weight? One parent wonders.

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My son obsessively exercises during the commercials of whatever he happens to be watching. By Michael Bahler

January 20, 2022 Parenting Challenges

My youngest child is nine. I still have breastmilk in the freezer.

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I simply couldn’t bring myself to throw those old bottles away. By Manndi Maphies Wilkins

January 19, 2022 Parenting Challenges

How curiosity can help lead women to their unicorn space

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Why is the question—what makes you feel the most like you?—so often met with an extended pause? By Eve Rodsky

January 12, 2022 Books, Culture

Perimenopause and the climate crisis are hitting me at the same time. Now what?

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We are both going haywire, Mother Nature and I. By Marya Markovich

January 5, 2022 Culture

Why I chopped off my hair during the pandemic to try to reinvent myself

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It’s refreshing to see so many Black women showing how beautiful short and natural hair can be. By Chanize Thorpe

January 3, 2022 Culture

Learning how to manage holiday expectations in the face of a diagnosis

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I now see Christmas as a time for an extra dose of grace, for patience with others and especially ourselves. By Lisa Doggett

December 17, 2021 Parenting Challenges

My parents won’t get vaccinated. Will we celebrate the holidays together?

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I don’t have an answer. I want to see them, but I also want to protect my family. By Melissa Scholes Young

December 15, 2021 Parenting Challenges

12 of our favorite books about Christmas for little kids

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Great reads for festive days! By Anaita Vazifdar-Davar

December 14, 2021 Books, Culture

Books to gift the young readers in your life this holiday season

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10 titles that are sure to entertain and empower children and middle grade readers.

December 9, 2021 Books, Culture

As a NICU mother, it felt like I’d failed my newborn son

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Time stands still in the NICU. Days are long, nights are lonely, and you feel useless. By Tania Lorena Rivera

December 8, 2021 Family

Holiday cards only tell half the story, but I still send them anyway

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There we stood, guilty of creating a fairy-tale holiday card in the middle of a crisis. By Vanessa Garza

December 1, 2021 Parenting Challenges

It’s still not easy to explain COVID to a three-year-old

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As the pandemic has dragged on, he’s grown into a thoughtful person who hears everything and wants answers. By Maya Schenwar

November 24, 2021 Culture, Family, Parenting Advice

The beauty and tumult of a very big family

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With six children, you learn to spread anxiety thinly over everyone until it ceases to have much impact. By Jodi Bartle

November 17, 2021 Parenting Challenges

Why I have mom guilt when my children miss out on things

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The fact that my kid is in his school uniform while his classmates are all dressed for the party makes me cringe. By Virginia Fundora

November 9, 2021 Parenting Challenges

My husband is a gamer. This is what it’s like for me.

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The day our third child came along, I often found myself fantasizing about cutting the cords of his computer. By Tania Lorena Rivera

October 27, 2021 Parenting Challenges

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