My Truth as a Single Parent
I imagined parenting to be difficult and exhausting yet rewarding. I imagined sharing my children’s milestones as well as parenting milestones with my partner. I pictured us watching our baby...
Definitely Wear Elbow Pads
Recently, I found myself flying down a hill on a skateboard at Boom Island Park, only slightly on this side of being under control. And for those of you who...
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I didn’t have a phone until I was a senior in college. When I finally got one, it was the kind that slid apart to reveal a tiny keyboard, and...
What Will I Do?
by Amy Workman
What will I do when I don’t know everything about you? What will I do when I don’t know how many freckles you have and in which order you got...
The Truth About Teeth
Tell me the truth: did you ever think about how and when your kid would lose her teeth? Did you ever have any sense of what it might be like...
Raising Kids with Our Traditions but in a Different Culture
{Photo credit: Jennifer Burks Photography} As parents, we yearn to pass on our culture and traditions to our children as part of parenting. I didn’t realize this until I faced...
Turn the Page
by Katie Clark
How many times have you read the same children’s book again and again and again? How often do you stop and actually listen to the words, the message, and the...
The Did-Do List
“I feel like I am failing at everything!” Ever yelled that one into the big open sky? Yep – me, too. Only about 10,000 times. It’s so easy to see...
Give Your Kid a Scoutlook On Life!
What’s better than your kid having more fun than they’ve ever had before? Having fun with them, of course. That’s exactly what Cub Scouts aims to do by providing a...
Grace and Grit
I knew I’d get some funny comments when I was pregnant. I had heard my mom friends lament about them, the jokes about expecting twins, and how ridiculous it is...
The Myth of Motherhood
When expecting your first child, you often have an idea in your head of the type of mother you want to be. You daydream about how you will speak to...
Two Pink Lines
My husband and I only waited a year after we were married before we started trying to have a baby, but month after month, we kept getting negative pregnancy tests....