The Pros and Cons of Choosing a Language Immersion School
Let me tell you the truth. The unromanticized, the good-the bad-and-the ugly truth about sending your child to an immersion school. We are eight months into our experience. Eight long,...
Black History Month: 16 Moms Who Inspire Us
by Daci Platt
In honor of Black History Month, we’ve put together a list of mothers and women who inspire us — not just this month, but every day. Audre Lorde, poet (1934-1992) How...
Baby Sign is for Everyone!
“Ice cream. More. Please,” my toddler sleepily communicates to me in baby sign at 6 am. She hasn’t been awake for long, but she knows exactly what she wants. In fact, I almost...
The Journey Home
I am proud of how I came to be living and raising my family here in Minnesota. I sometimes wonder what life would be like if my parents did not...
Happy Lunar New Year!
Well, welcome to the year of the Rooster. This is another holiday my family celebrates since I am Vietnamese. Countries like China and Vietnam follow the lunar calendar and the...
Starting Our New Year on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
This year our family New Year’s Resolution was to become more civic minded and focus on service in our community. Admittedly, two weeks later, we are off to a slow...
Raising Kids in a Gender Neutral Family
When I was pregnant with each of my children, everyone wanted to know whether the baby was a boy or a girl, including me and my husband. For some reason,...
The World My Kids Live In
My husband texted me a few nights ago about a conversation he had with our oldest son. It made my heart drop. Our son told him that he wanted to be...
A Call to Love
by Kim
I was angry, more angry than I should have been. It had been a very long, frustrating winter day trapped inside with a teething toddler and a true-to-the-name threenager. There...
With An Open Heart – How to Talk About Disabilities
“Mommy, I hear train,” my two year old, Charlotte, signs to me with her micro-toddler fingers. My daughter doesn’t share my disability; but her little fingers know American Sign Language (ASL) and...
Why We Hope You Don’t Agree with All of Our Articles
Wait…what? Did you read that title right? Yes, you did. We hope you don’t love every last one of our articles. Not often, but every once in a while, when...
Teaching Our Children About The World We Live In
by Emily
I’ve lived in the Twin Cities for almost 11 years. It’s definitely become my home. The summers here can’t be beat, it’s close enough to our extended families, and was...
The Gift of DNA | An Adoptee’s Perspective
by Leah Pihlaja
Recently, Rachael Dolezal quickly came in and out of our news just as fast as Kylie Jenner’s lip challenge. She was outed by her family as being a white woman who...
