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Confessions of a mom who doesn’t worry

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If actively fearing for your children’s safety is a natural instinct, my maternal hardwiring must be faulty. By Lauren Apfel

January 5, 2017 Parenting Challenges

Motherwell’s most popular posts of 2016

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Motherwell publishes provocative, evocative essays on all aspects of the parenting experience. Here are our most-read pieces from 2016.

December 20, 2016 Culture, Family, Parenting Challenges

The so-called simplicity of boys

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I can’t help but think ideas about simplicity mask ideas about masculinity, and what it is, and isn’t, okay to feel.
By Ashley Lefrak Grider

December 15, 2016 Culture

A few of Motherwell’s favorite parenting books

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Our carefully curated selection of must-read parenting books from the last few years.
By Lauren Apfel

December 12, 2016 Books

Winter is here, but my baby is not

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I’m postpartum. Without a newborn. At 20 weeks of pregnancy, my baby didn’t make it.
By Jenn Press Arata

December 6, 2016 Parenting Challenges

Almost 40, dating, and I want another baby

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What shocked me most about online dating was the absolute scorn for women who wanted, or already had, children.
By Dena Landon

November 30, 2016 Parenting Challenges

At the end of a family’s difficult year: gratitude

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If bad things really do happen in threes, then my son being hit by a car had completed our 2016 trifecta.
By Samantha Shanley

November 28, 2016 Parenting Challenges

The first photo of my premature baby

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Photographs suggested a future, a future in which we would look back at this moment, but a future where our baby might be gone.
By Yvonne Spence

November 22, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

Perspective | In the post-Trump world, it’s up to us to raise activist kids

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After this election, if we want our children to be a part of the solution, we need to start modeling activism for them.
By Jody Allard

November 17, 2016 Culture

Motherwhelmed: the art, science and mysteries of motherhood

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Motherwhelmed is a graphic memoir about the tumultuous first years of a new mother’s life.
By Jessica Carew Kraft

November 15, 2016 Books

Parenting my black, immigrant daughter after the election

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One mother’s experience getting through the day, now that she knows Trump is the President of the United States.
By Sara Ackerman

November 9, 2016 Culture

How (not) to talk to someone else’s daughter

Sepia photograph of girl in a polka-dotted dress look shyly down
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When my daughter smiles, she is not a “beauty queen.” She smiles because she is happy.
By Marina Koestler Ruben

November 7, 2016 Culture

Perspective | Yes, I f-ing let my kids curse

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If you calm down about the illicit nature of the words, we’re just talking about talking.
By Brianne DeRosa

November 2, 2016 Parenting Advice, Parenting Challenges

Perspective | No swearing in my house

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Our no cursing rule is one way I maintain the boundary between child and adult.
By Lisa Sadikman

November 2, 2016 Parenting Advice, Parenting Challenges

The length of the pause

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One day my son was a typically developing, albeit shy, three-year-old. The next he wasn’t able to say a word in public.
By Tanya Mozias Slavin

October 31, 2016 Parenting Challenges

The boring tragedies of parenthood

Sketch of ancient women in a row holding onto each other
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I am shocked still by the parenting moments that break my heart.
By Catherine Newman

October 27, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

Learning to be a worrier mom from afar

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I had to step back and let her stand on her own two feet—even when she was shivering feverishly under the covers.
By Candy Schulman

October 25, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

Perspective | Explain this tutoring thing to me, please                        

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Why do so many kids have tutors? Are the placement requirements that lax or is everybody just trying to get a leg up?
By Francie Arenson Dickman

October 15, 2016 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Is there such a thing as too many kids?

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How do we decide when a family is “complete”?
By Lauren Apfel

October 15, 2016 Culture, Family

The journey of pregnancy after miscarriage

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The #IHadAMiscarriage campaign was launched to de-stigmatize pregnancy loss.
By Jessica Zucker

October 13, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

What the Dutch can teach us about our daughters and sex

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While American parents are talking to their daughters about the risks of sex, the Dutch are talking about the joys of intimacy.
By Peggy Orenstein

October 10, 2016 Books, Culture

Why it’s important for kids to see women in power

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Hillary Clinton might not have won the presidency, but we need women to keep fighting for these roles.
By Lauren Apfel

October 10, 2016 Culture

Girls & Sex, a review

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Peggy Orenstein’s Girls & Sex is a deftly executed, non-judgemental cultural commentary on the complexities of female adolescent sexuality.
By Lauren Apfel

October 7, 2016 Books

Why our kids need others to love them

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Caregiving, which is typically undervalued and underpaid, needs to be given the respect it deserves.
By Vicki Larson

October 4, 2016 Parenting Challenges

The early days of an autism diagnosis

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Nowhere in my plans was talking to a stranger about teaching basic social skills. Nowhere in my plans was autism.
By Katie Read

September 27, 2016 Parenting Challenges

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