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How to help kids with grief when an adult relationship ends

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I didn’t have my therapist hat on when my son went through his grief—I was just his mom, muddling through it alongside him. By Lori Gottlieb

June 19, 2019 Books, Parenting Challenges

Is the child in my book a boy or a girl?

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Because the new story is a bit of a sequel, I leaned towards using the same boy character again. But I remember thinking, “Why do I have to choose?” By Denise Barry

May 15, 2019 Books

How to help teens tackle mental health issues with reading

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Be bold. The book you suggest could save a kid’s life. By Melissa Hart

April 2, 2019 Culture

How to help my daughter feel more comfortable about her height

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Every day she’d come home and say, “today my friends called me peanut, and it makes me sad.” By Lori Orlinksy

March 14, 2019 Culture

Useful tips on how to raise a reader

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Actions speak louder than words. Take your kids to the library once a week or make regular outings to your local bookstore. By Regan McMahon

March 6, 2019 Culture

Q&A: What it’s like to be a single mother and a maid

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Stephanie Land’s daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter. In her debut memoir, she tells the story of how they survived.

February 6, 2019 Books, Culture

What our kids miss out on growing up in a curated world

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YouTube, Apple Music, Netflix. Kids seldom watch, listen to, or read anything these days they didn’t select themselves—or that wasn’t suggested by an anxious-to-please algorithm. By Mary Janevic

January 28, 2019 Culture, Family

How to increase the joy in sibling relationships

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Make sure your children have time together without you. Encourage their collective independence. By KJ Dell’Antonia

July 26, 2018 Books, Family

A Motherwell Q&A with nanny to the stars, Connie Simpson

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It’s old-school knowledge seasoned with new-school methods validated by hands-on experience.

March 21, 2018 Books, Parenting Advice

Learning how to let your teens motivate themselves

pencil sketch "The Self-Driven Child"
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Coming to peace with the reality that you can’t make your kid do things is actually liberating. By William Stixrud and Ned Johnson

March 2, 2018 Books, Parenting Challenges

A selection of Motherwell’s favorite parenting books

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Looking for the perfect parenting gift, book club recommendation or holiday read? Look no further. By Lauren Apfel

December 6, 2017 Books

How to realize your son is not lazy

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Decades ago, boys who lacked motivation were called late bloomers. Today, we call them underachievers. By Adam Price

December 5, 2017 Books, Culture

The feminist’s guide to raising a little princess

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Unless we can retell the story in a relevant way, let’s put Cinderella to rest. By Devorah Blanchor

November 7, 2017 Books, Culture

Excerpt: Shonda Rhimes on the greeting cards mothers really need

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I don’t think it ever occurred to me how much and how often women are praised for displaying traits that basically render them invisible. By Shonda Rhimes

October 17, 2017 Books, Culture

When everything goes wrong, being a good enough mother

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My confidence in myself as a parent, a wife, and a woman were badly shaken. I was a mess. By Diane Pomerantz

October 10, 2017 Parenting Challenges

Yes, we might be overparenting, but it’s not all bad

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Not everything modern parents are doing is backfiring: our kids are tolerant, empowered and closer to us than ever. By Mary Janevic

September 28, 2017 Culture

My middle child’s quest to be declared “officially amazing”

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If birth order has anything to do with it, our six-year-old just might have a decent chance at setting a Guinness World Record. By Kate Lemery

September 27, 2017 Culture, Family

I’m the one who got away: an author Q&A

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Motherwell interviews Andrea Jarrell about her debut memoir, which touches on themes of motherhood, desire and vulnerability.

August 22, 2017 Books

How storytelling helps my daughter stand up for herself

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The stories I make up for my child are more powerful than any book, because she is the heroine.
By Lauren Kosa

August 3, 2017 Family

What Jennifer Senior thinks we need to be happier parents

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The author of All Joy and No Fun talks to Motherwell about parental anxiety, adolescence, and what she regrets about her bestselling book.
By Rebecca Gale

April 20, 2017 Books

How to handle it when IVF takes over your life

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More than my body and my schedule, IVF took over my mind.
By Belle Boggs

April 17, 2017 Books, Parenting Challenges

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

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

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

Measuring the baby’s ears

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My unborn kid had a 1 in 214 chance of having Down syndrome. Those seemed like pretty good odds.
By Amy Silverman

August 30, 2016 Books, Parenting Challenges

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