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How to help my daughter release her rage

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She screams with a primal, gut-shriek: “I hate math! Math is stupid!” By Melissa Savoie

October 29, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

This is how judging people during COVID feels like new motherhood

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When I was a new mom, it was easier to shame and blame than sit with the fear that I had made the wrong choice. By Caroline Grobler-Tanner

October 15, 2020 Parenting Challenges

Teaching my Black son how to bake

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Was Tamir Rice also an only child? Did he also make cookies with his mother? By Jill Moffett

September 10, 2020 Culture

Video games are helping teens connect with friends right now

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In the Before Time, I wouldn’t have allowed Call of Duty in our house, much less allowed him to play it for hours on end. By Deborah Williams

September 7, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Bullying in the age of remote learning

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With all the changes in 2020, one thing has remained constant: being bullied is a traumatic experience for kids. By Lori Orlinsky

September 3, 2020 Culture, Parenting Advice, 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

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

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

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

Sibling relationships are powerful, in lockdown and out

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On their first day of homeschooling a punch was thrown over whose turn it was to use the laptop. By Sylvia Carr Clebsch

June 9, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

My maternal focus on survival in the grocery store

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Where once I was gatherer, now I am hunter. Acquiring food to feed my family has taken on new significance. By Susannah Q. Pratt

May 20, 2020 Culture

What happens to people with infertility during a pandemic?

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According to specialists, a 12-week delay won’t make the difference between someone having a baby or not. By Mimi Sager Yoskowitz

May 13, 2020 Culture, Family

Things I am grateful for right now

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We have plenty of coffee in our cupboard. What’s not in bloom has buds, promises, waiting. By Kara Gebhart Uhl

May 1, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Finding the silver linings in a dark time

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I’m having a good quarantine. Can I say that? By Lauren Apfel

April 24, 2020 Culture

A thank you note to all teachers

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This job is hard—physically, mentally, emotionally—it’s so damn hard. By Maureen Boesen

April 13, 2020 Culture, Family

The relentless anxiety of being a single parent right now

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Let your children see you trying. Let them see you cry. By Kaci Curtis

April 8, 2020 Culture, Family

This is how perspectives change during a hard time

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He said, “I never knew you started dinner at 4pm every weekday.” By Teresa B. Duffy

April 6, 2020 Culture, Family

You will want to remember this

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How you went from the rigid enforcer to letting your kids to eat cake in their bedrooms. How you learned to wait. How you learned what mattered. By Michelle Riddell

April 2, 2020 Culture

Motherwell talks to best-selling author Ada Calhoun

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Ada Calhoun gives a voice to middle-age struggles—and empowers a generation of women who were raised to “have it all.”

March 30, 2020 Books, Culture

Parenting in the time of coronavirus

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March 17, 2020 Culture
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