The Life-Changing Magic of Showering
Bathing is something we think about surprisingly often as mothers. Sponging kids down after each diaper explosion, spaghetti dinner, and marker incident. Wondering if playing in the pool for five...
Caring Beyond The Classroom
While many of us teach our children to use “please” and “thank you” before they can even talk, it takes time and effort for true appreciation and gratitude to...
Tell the Scary Stories Too
“Mommy, tell me a story.” It’s the latest bedtime stall tactic in our house. My body wants to say no, wants to claw my way out of this room, away...
A Bittersweet End to the Tooth Fairy
There comes a time in each child’s life when they learn the hard facts about Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and the myriad of other white lies and...
A Kind Heart
According to Elizabeth Stone, parenting is “to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” Like most moms, I’m probably a bit overprotective. I want my...
Forced to Figure It Out
by Amy Workman
My husband’s vacation time was up and he returned to work when our daughter was three weeks old. I could see no feasible way to do anything besides take care...
Martial Arts and Motherhood
When you tell people you’re a black belt there are some pretty standard response you get: how long have you been doing it? What kind of martial arts do you do?...
Bribery Desserts and Forced Family Fun
Kids grow up. That’s what they do. If you feed them – which it’s illegal not to – and time passes, they will grow up. The older they get, the...
I Am Sorry
by Joy Ballard
It was the end of a long day. My husband and I were having our usual debrief of the day’s happenings when all of a sudden, seemingly out of nowhere,...
How to Have A Tooth-Friendly Halloween
Is thinking about Halloween candy and its effect on your children’s teeth enough to give you the chills? Don’t despair — you can be mindful of your child’s health and...
Why I Don’t Stress About Getting the Perfect Family Picture
Fall is officially here! That means sweaters, pumpkin spice everything, lots of raking, and of course, family pictures. I mean who doesn’t want to dress their family up in coordinating...
Will This Phase Ever End?
In full disclosure, I wrote this post 4 months ago. But wasn’t quite ready to post it. Probably because I think it was too raw for me at the time....