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Art and motherhood: is there really a way to do both?

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I might be a mom by day, but in my heart I am a writer. By Reannon Muth

January 25, 2023 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Q&A: How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t with Your Kids

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Motherwell talks to parenting author Carla Naumburg, PhD.

May 3, 2021 Books

Raising a Rare Girl: an author Q&A

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This book is a meditation about what unconditional love offers both recipient and giver. By Sarah Buttenwieser

January 28, 2021 Books, Parenting Challenges

Here’s to hoping my kids leave for college in the fall

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How, my girls wonder, can they live a big life if they can’t get out of the gate? I feel for them. By Francie Arenson Dickman

May 7, 2020 Family

This is what happened when I came out to my kids

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I told my kids in McDonald’s. Because when you’re about to drop that kind of bomb, really you want them to be eating french fries. By Lauren Apfel

March 2, 2020 Culture

Motherwell talks to bestselling author and therapist Lori Gottlieb

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So much of who we are has to do with how we think about our own parents and our own childhood.

June 19, 2019 Books, Culture

Perspective | Teaching cursive is a waste of time

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I’m a third grade teacher. No amount of cursive writing instruction is going to bridge literacy gaps or resolve comprehension deficits. By Michelle Riddell

March 18, 2019 Culture

How to respect kids’ privacy in the age of parenting writing

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KJ Dell’Antonia, Jill Smokler, Jordan Shapiro, Janelle Hanchett, and Jessica Lahey weigh in on how much is too much when it comes to writing about our children.

February 5, 2019 Culture, Family

Navigating my ambition as a single mother

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My own aspirations weren’t as important as buying groceries. I had my daughters 80 percent of the time. By Katherine Sargent

October 4, 2017 Culture

On being a part-time working mom

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Mothers are not static entities. We evolve in this role, as in any other.
By Lauren Apfel

July 25, 2017 Culture

An editor’s perspective: the personal parenting essay is not dead

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Whatever the political climate, we will continue to write about bruised nipples, maternal ambivalence, how to raise kids who believe love is love.
By Lauren Apfel

June 15, 2017 Culture
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