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Is Parenting Harder For Us Than It Was For Our Parents?

No big long winded post today, just something I’ve been wondering about: With all of the parenting magazines, books, blogs, podcasts, products, websites, classes, etc., are parents of today just … wimps? Is parenting that much harder these days that we need all this support to help us make it through parenthood? Or could it be that parenting back in the day only seemed easier because there … [Continue reading...]

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5 Things To Say To Your Kids At Least Once A Week

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” —Frederick Douglass That quote keeps me going on the days where I feel like my kids just aren’t listening. It gives me strength to keep hammering home those lessons I am desperate for them to learn. Although I feel at times like my words are going in one ear and out the other, there are moments when I realize they are … [Continue reading...]

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Spotlight: Co-parenting101.org

If you have any interest in co-parenting, there's someone you need to know. Well, two people. Deesha. And Michael. Deesha Philyaw and Michael Thomas are exes. Ex-husband and wife to be exact. Nothing too noteworthy there. But what IS noteworthy is the lengths they will go to make sure life for their kids is the best they can offer. They created Coparenting101.org after their marriage … [Continue reading...]

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Can You Ever Be Prepared To Be A Parent?

I wrote this for BMWK.com, first posted 12/11/08. Gives you something to read over while I'm on "vacation." See you Monday! This ain’t the Boy Scouts: There’s no such thing as a prepared parent   I know one of the first things I did when I found out I was pregnant with my first child was run out and buy some pregnancy books. I got all the classics: What to Expect When You’re Expecting, The … [Continue reading...]

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10 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Had Kids

I wrote this for BMWK.com, posted 12/18/08 I wish I knew… 1. How much I would worry about finances. Pre-baby, when my bank account balance was nearing zero I knew I could always scrape by, perhaps skip a meal or two, and I’d survive. Now? There’s no getting around a lack of cash. Something always needs to be purchased. Kids poop, so they need diapers. They need to be fed, so you buy baby food. … [Continue reading...]

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How many kids do you want to have?

I'm a young mom, and with 1.5 kids (soon to be two any day now), I think I'm done. No, not think, I know. I know I'm done having kids. But everyone I know thinks I'm crazy for deciding this at 22. With two kids already, don't I have a right to step back and say, "Okay, this is all I can handle?" Sure, I might change my mind later (highly, highly, highly doubt it), but at this point in my life, … [Continue reading...]

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