The Young Mommy Life

                      I plopped my butt down and watched Brandy’s Behind the Music episode that I had been waiting for over the past couple weeks. As a teen girl, I was enamored with Brandy. I listened to “I Wanna Be Down” and “Best Friend” on repeat [...]

by Latonya Moore My mom gave birth to me ten days after her 14th birthday.  There were times during my youth that I resented her for being such a young mom.  I mainly felt this way because of her absence, and I believed her being absent was caused by her lack of maturity. Growing up [...]

A couple weeks ago, my daughter came home with information about a “wedding” in her kindergarten class. You see, Mr. Q and Mrs. U were getting married (because they love each other, you see) in an effort to teach the kids about phonics and all that jazz. My daughter was going to be a bridesmaid [...]

I finally, finally, finally got part two up! Read part one if you missed it. Erica asks: How long did it take to become self-employed? If you read my “How I Went From Laid Off To Gainfully Self-Employed” posts, you’ll know that I started seeing enough income come in around month seven. Luckily, I was [...]

I asked some moms on the YML Facebook page if they had questions about being their own boss. They did, and I answered some of them below. Yoni asks: Why are some so opposed to being self-employed?  Because it’s scary. When you’re working for someone else, you don’t realize how incredible it is that money [...]