Research Participants Needed to Better Understand Autism
What is autism? Why do we keep hearing more about it and why don’t we know more? Today, about 1 in 59 children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD),...
Below Me
I walk through the kitchen and step on a stray Cheerio. Into the dining room and my stockinged feet crunch up a half-eaten cracker. I strip my socks off and...
Must-Reads for Children’s Christmas Literature
by Amber Harder
Each morning in December, the kids and I gather in the living room after breakfast. We get the fire going and snuggle up together on the couch. I pick up...
How to Know When You’re Ready for Kids
by Liz Murray
Motherhood springs on us in different ways. For some, it’s a logical, analytical decision, thought out months or years in advance, perfectly timed and executed. For others, it’s a yearning...
December Kindness Countdown
by Ann Knuttila
We’re in the first week of December. No one can argue that the Christmas season is upon us. Do you and your kids have a countdown going? I feel like we...
Letting Go of the Perfect Christmas
At this time of year, there are two types of people: Those who are giddy about the holidays and the rest of us. I fall into the second group. In my...
Out of Reach
I recently attended a meeting where I was introduced as the owner of a local wine bar & bistro, a mom of three young girls and a freelance writer. Then...
Why Gratitude? Why Now?
If your family is anything like mine, the time of year between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve is filled with, “Pass the…” and “Can I have…” and “Oooh! Mama, I...
Dare Yourself
by Erin Statz
“Truth or Dare?” Do kids these days even play that game anymore or know what it is? Long before internet, tablets, phones or apps that was a game we...
When You’re Rocking Your Baby
If you are one of those mamas feeling fully touched-out, whose arm permanently and painfully locks into a 90 degree angle at the elbow, whose hips ache from the constant...
I Teach My Kids to Talk to Strangers
My kids are only 3 and 4 years old so in the parenting world, I’m kind of a rookie. I get it. But I heard someone say to their child...
Remember When It Was Just You and Me?
by Maureen Zhao
It used to be just you and me, kid. I remember it like it was yesterday, but you say you don’t remember it at all. It started with walks along...
Like a Savage
I get it. Being a mom often times means holding the line, enforcing the rules, and forcing – I mean fostering – a change in behavior. I am fully aware...
