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When A Friend Parents Your Child (And You Don’t Like It)

When A Friend Parents Your Child (And You Don’t Like It)

by Sarah Tierney Here’s something we can all agree on: parenting is tough. From the moment we see the two red lines on that pregnancy test until our child[ren]‘s adulthood (maybe), we reserve the right to parent as we choose. So what happens when a friend or even family get involved with the discipline of [...]

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{YML Voices} Starting Over and Wouldn’t Change It For the World

{YML Voices} Starting Over and Wouldn’t Change It For the World

by Robyn Carson If someone would have told me that I’d be having another baby when I had children who were 7 and 11 AND that I’d be doing it after I already turned 30, I would have called them a liar to their face. I became a mom at 20 and had decided that [...]

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{YML Voices} On The Path To Becoming A Doula

{YML Voices} On The Path To Becoming A Doula

by Gaetane Joseph Most people I know do not know the role that a doula plays in a life of a family during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum. I must admit, I was also guilty of the same thing prior to having children. It is not until I was pregnant with my 1st born, Addaeyomi, and [...]

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{YML Voices} There Is Never An Easy Answer

{YML Voices} There Is Never An Easy Answer

by Madeline Wilson I did something a little radical this week. I went out and got a job. The getting dressed in real clothes and leaving the house kind of job. It was something I thought I needed, even at moments thought I desperately wanted. I thought it would give me validation. A sense of [...]

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{YML Voices} Once A Young Mom, Always A Young Mom

{YML Voices} Once A Young Mom, Always A Young Mom

by Trudi Lebron At 30, I may not be considered a “young mommy” when I am dropping off my three-year-old son, Kennedy, at preschool. I’m actually somewhere in the middle of the younger 20somethings with their first child and older moms who may be raising the last of their litter at 40. But when I’m [...]

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