The Young Mommy Life

Will someone please come get me? This is week three of classes and I’m thisclose to needing a break in a room with padded walls. It’s not even the courseload (although I could honestly do without having a paper due every week…sigh). It’s the other students. One of the courses I’m taking is an undergraduate [...]

I just finished my first semester of grad school and I’m tired. Beat down mentally. But I’m pushing forward because I know getting that degree will so worth it in the end. (Plus, I get to learn about all the research that policy makers depend on, so we can all get more family-friend policies and [...]

As a Family Studies major, we’re asked to select a family population or issue (military families, LGBT families, alcoholism in families, etc.) to study for the semester and to apply what we’ve learned to our selected focus. I, of course, choose college-age moms as my population. I’ve been researching all these efforts to curb unplanned [...]

I started grad school this week.  I’m still nervous.   I mean, really, I’m freaking out about being overwhelmed. I actually called my sister and told her to schedule a mental breakdown for me somewhere around the third week of the semester.   But regardless of my feelings, I’m going back to school because I want to [...]