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What New Parents REALLY Need to Know

April 28, 2016 By Lauren

New parents get told a lot of things, good and bad, about having a baby. Here's what you really need to know.

You’re standing in line at the grocery store in yesterday’s clothes, fussing baby in your arms, hair pulled into a greasy ponytail. The cashier gives you a once-over before commenting, “This is nothing, Honey. Just wait until she’s three!” Even if she’s right, in that moment her words are far from helpful. A mom in […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Informational, Parenting Essays, Parenting Humor Tagged With: babies, baby, kids, new parents, parenting, parents, toddlers

Why I’m Embracing My Mom Guilt

April 3, 2016 By Lauren

Stop fighting mom guilt and embrace it instead. Here's why:

© 2014 Lauren Cormier, as first published on Scary Mommy Mom guilt. Before I had kids, it was just a phrase to roll my eyes at. After I had kids, it became a living entity with the ability to eat me alive if I wasn’t careful. Why I’m Embracing My Mom Guilt Before I had […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays, Parenting Humor Tagged With: kids, mom guilt, motherhood, parenting

Wasn’t It Just Yesterday?

March 18, 2016 By Lauren

I sit on a swing at my favorite park and glance to my left at the playground equipment. As my eyes focus on my oldest it dawns on me what I’m seeing, what I’ve been seeing since we arrived over an hour ago. He is perched above the monkey bars, surveying the neighborhood from close […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays Tagged With: bittersweet, growing up, kids, parenting, today, yesterday

How I’m Like Lord Business as a Mom, and the Ways I’m Letting Go

March 1, 2016 By Lauren

Guest Post by Esther Littlefield of Wellness Mom Life I sat on the floor with my daughter playing Legos. I looked around me and inwardly cringed. Every set we’ve bought her over the years is now jumbled up, scattered throughout multiple bins, across the floor, and made into new creations. It’s not just the Lego […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Informational, Parenting Essays Tagged With: children, expectations, kids, letting go, parenting, perfect

When Pride Gets in the Way of Parenting

February 18, 2016 By Lauren

Do you let what other people think of you change the way you parent your kids?

This post contains affiliate links. I settled onto the couch, laptop in hand, as three excited kids crowded around me. They talked over each other, trying to be the first to be heard. “Look up sports ones!” “No, Star Wars!” “I want princesses!” When Pride Gets in the Way of Parenting It was the end […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Informational, Parenting Essays Tagged With: kids, parenting, pride

How to Steal Time

February 15, 2016 By Lauren

When you're having trouble dividing your time equally between your children, maybe the solution is to steal some.

This post originally appeared on Mom Babble. I awoke to quiet talking and took a moment to get my bearings. Our room was unusually dark, mostly because our three kids were camped out on our bedroom floor. With their bedrooms vacant, we’d forgotten to turn on the nightlight in the hall and the dim green glow that usually […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays Tagged With: kids, motherhood, parenting, time

When Your Kid Is a Brat

February 4, 2016 By Lauren

The problem of when your kid is a brat

Originally published in 2012.  This will come as no great surprise to those of you who already have children, but it may be shocking to the ones who haven’t yet delved into the wonderful world of parenting. Brace yourselves, future dads and moms because here it is: Sometimes I don’t like my kids. Thankfully, most […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays Tagged With: brat, grace, kids, motherhood, parenting

Raising Racially-Sensitive Kids in the Whitest State in America

January 18, 2016 By Lauren

How do you raise children who see beyond the color of someone's skin when everyone around them is white? Raising racially-sensitive kids in the whitest state in America.

It became apparent as soon as we stepped off the airplane. I noticed it amid the hustle and bustle of gathering kids and carry-ons, threading our way through the crowds to baggage claim, and finding a porter to help with our monstrous pile of luggage and car seats. People of every color flowed past us in […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: kids, parenting, race, racially-sensitive, racism

“Why am I Sticky?” A Poem About Parenthood

December 21, 2015 By Lauren

A Poem About Parenthood- Why Am I Sticky?

“Why Am I Sticky?” A Poem About Parenthood Our baby is here, a sweet little boy. He’s tiny, my love bug, our bundle of joy. I feed him and burp him, then lay him down. “Why am I sticky?” I ask with a frown. Upon closer inspection, I soon see why. Dribbled milk’s on my skin, and […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Humor Tagged With: funny, kids, messes, parenting, poem, poetry, sad, sticky

I Love and Hate That We Don’t Do Santa

December 7, 2015 By Lauren

I Love and Hate That We Don't Do Santa

  Before our oldest child was born, we decided that Santa would not be a part of our Christmas festivities. We made the decision the way most people do who haven’t had kids yet: With full confidence that we knew exactly what we were doing. I Love and Hate That We Don’t Do Santa Now […]

Filed Under: Holidays Tagged With: believe, Christmas, holiday, kids, parenting, Santa

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