Category: Parenting
It’s so hard to feel fulfilled when you’re a stay at home mom. It can really be a tough experience. Don’t get me wrong, I love my kids. But being home alone all day with them can be the most monotonous, mind-numbing, and exhausting experience. I’ve found myself in the …
If you’re here, I’m guessing you’ve figured out that breastfeeding is hard work! Props to you though, mama, for not quitting at the first sign of adversity like so many people do! I know you want the best for your baby, and you know that breastfeeding benefits your baby in …
Last week I talked a little bit about the parenting strategies I use to help my kids learn to not be picky. But what if the damage is done and you have an established picky eater? We gotta get those veggies in them somehow. The answer? A little deception. A …
Breastfeeding can be hard. I was blessed enough to breastfeed each of my babies for over a year, but not without a lot of struggle and perseverance. I hear a lot of women say that they stopped breastfeeding for reasons that could have easily been resolved if only they had …
Toddlers come with lots of challenges. It’s challenging when your baby grows into a toddler who has her own thoughts and ideas about what she wants to do and how she wants to interact with the world around her. It often comes with a fair amount of poor behavior that …
There’s been a lengthy cartoon floating around the internets of late (read it here), and, briefly summarized, it talks about how women carry the mental burden of most tasks around the home and how terrible this is and how men do nothing and they’re worthless sloths who contribute to the …
Parenting is tough and we all have our fair share of screw-ups. Normally I would start with a funny story about how my child nearly died when I turned my back for like a sec, but I won’t do that because I’m pretty sure CPS will be knocking on my …
