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A recipe for learning how to accept your body

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Step Three: Layer 2 healthy parents and 1 naturally skinny sister. By Amye Archer

August 26, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

As a psychologist, this is how back to school anxiety affects me

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I am carrying my own maternal fears right now and also those of my patients. By Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco

August 24, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Dads are taking on the burdens of remote learning too

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Last spring, when we finally gave up the dream of returning to school, I held onto September as my North Star. By Steven Newmark

August 21, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

My relationship with food as a first-generation mom

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I talk with my mother multiple times a day. “Saaptacha?” It is routine, this asking if I’ve had my meal. By Lakshmi Lyer

August 19, 2020 Culture

What you need to know if you’re planning to homeschool this fall

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You might love it. Maybe not every day, but there will be moments. By Laura Catherine Hanby Hudgens

August 12, 2020 Culture, Parenting Advice

Cancer taught me you don’t need to be a perfect mom

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My daughter was born four weeks after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. By Jenny Leon

August 10, 2020 Family, Parenting Challenges

What I know now about feeding a family

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I watched my mother starve herself for years, food as a kind of inhaled medication. By Micah Stover

August 6, 2020 Parenting Challenges

Why I love it when my kitchen is closed

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I didn’t know that motherhood would feel tantamount to being a short order cook. By Lauren Apfel

July 28, 2020 Culture, Family

Perspective | It’s time to drop the Karen stereotype

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Karen is the internet equivalent to the age-old double standard that a man who is vocal is assertive but when it’s a woman she’s a shrew. By Laura Catherine Hanby Hudgens

July 27, 2020 Culture

What it means to be a food allergy mom

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What if you are the best mother you can be and it’s still not enough to save your child? What if one mistake is the fatal bite? By Lauren Weiss

July 23, 2020 Parenting Challenges

What have you learned about yourself during the pandemic?

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Parenting, relationships, work-life balance. Your pandemic self-growth in 100 words or less.

July 15, 2020 Culture

How I created a little magic for my family

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The Special Spoon held sway over my children more raptly than I ever intended. By Suzanne Mattaboni

July 13, 2020 Family

Quarantined in motherhood

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There have been many moments when I have simply broken down, walked upstairs and fallen face-first on my bed. By Tara Mandarano

July 10, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

This is what happened to my long-distance relationship in the pandemic

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Our kids had met only a handful of times, but now all of a sudden we were living together as a family. By Lauren Apfel

July 9, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Letting go of the emotional labor of cooking right now

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It’s been a long, slow road to finding a balance between supporting others and supporting myself. By Yvonne Spence

July 8, 2020 Culture, Family

This week in parenting: July 3rd, 2020

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Hamilton Movie, Quarantine Pen Pals, Should Schools Open in the Fall?

July 3, 2020 Culture

What happens to the kids when both parents model poor eating habits

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I know we’re both doing it wrong. I’m teaching our children that restraint is a shackle; he’s teaching them that tight control is the only way to avoid obesity. By Lorren Lemmons

July 1, 2020 Culture, Family

Moms are the ultimate carriers for their kids

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As much as I juggled and schlepped and complained, the day eventually came when I realized my arms were empty. By Laurie Sunderland

June 29, 2020 Family

This week in parenting: June 26, 2020

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Splash Mountain Re-Named, Quarantine Little Lessons, Family Pods for Summer, and More

June 26, 2020 Culture

Perspective | Don’t have important talks with kids at the dinner table

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In our household, my children are allowed to eat with a good book or their tablet. I don’t expect them to talk. By Tania Lorena Rivera

June 24, 2020 Family

Why parents should let their children help

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Mom and Dad never sat us down and told us he had MS. Or maybe they did and I don’t remember because I was just a kid thinking about snacks. By Megan Jean Sovern

June 22, 2020 Culture

How not to kill your kid in the kitchen

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Have you ever watched a five-year-old pour a package of cooked green beans into a bowl? I have. And let me tell you, it nearly did me in. By Debra Arbit 

June 17, 2020 Family

7 unexpected things I taught my kid during homeschooling

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Start with “shitty first drafts.” We don’t curse in our house, so it was a big deal when I taught my son this one. By Wendy Kennar

June 15, 2020 Culture, Parenting Advice

Why I used to hate taking my kids to the park

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Nothing epitomized the drudgery and boredom of those early parenting years quite like an afternoon at the park. By Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco

June 12, 2020 Culture

I want to be the mom who bakes

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My son loves to eat at Grandma’s house, he gets real cream and real sugar. Unlike the dishes I cook, which are vegetarian or Paleo or Whole30. By Elizabeth Newdom

June 10, 2020 Family, Parenting Challenges

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