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How To Make Your House Feel Like Home After Divorce
How to make a home for kids split between two houses and families
Mommy Matchmakers
Make new friends via two apps for busy moms
Lean on Me
Where parents of children with special needs can find community, support and space to be themselves.
Retying The Knot
Caring for two little ones, working full time and traveling for work took a toll on our marriage, but we recognized this early and have spent the last several months working on reconnecting.
How to Make Fellow Mom Friends
Instantly, I recognized her as a fellow traveler on the weird journey of new motherhood. And with that stroke of courage on her part, Stacy quickly became one of my closest friends.
Teaching Kids to Think for Themselves
Most brain development in children happens before the age of 3. So parents are encouraged to actively engage in their child’s initial touching, talking, reading and playing experiences, which leads to successful parent-guided parent-child collaborations in the future. That’s right: The molding of good decision makers starts at infancy and grows from there.
How to Raise Kind, Empathetic Kids
Undoubtedly, we want to raise kind, thoughtful, compassionate kids, right? But can kindness be taught?
How to Talk to Your Black Kids Honestly About Race
Race is an abstract concept for children to grasp and can prove to be tricky waters for parents to navigate.
Raising Fatherless Kids
More than 24 million American children are being raised without the presence of their biological fathers.
Paranoid Parenting's Pitfalls
Given all the scary segments on nightly newscasts, it’s easy to assume that predators hide behind every corner. Has the inundation of graphic images bolstered an epidemic of paranoid parenting?
Is it OK to Spank Your Kids?
As many as 80 percent of parents around the world spank their children. But 50 years of research now shows spanking kids does way more harm than good.
Peeping Mom
Monitoring children has been a hotly contested topic in recent years with the introduction of apps and software that let parents keep tabs on, well, everything their child does. Some classify this as parenting; others (like myself) look at it as an invasion of privacy that might actually do more harm than good.
Moms + Babies 2016
The Best of the Best for All Things Birth and New Mom
The (Marriage) Dating Game
Never stop dating your spouse. Date nights show a willingness to make the other person a priority by setting aside one-on-one time and working to constantly develop the relationship.
Taking Care of Your Marriage When Your Child has Special Needs
Major life changes intensify whatever strengths and weaknesses are present in any marriage. Toss in a kid with a disability, and the challenges, pressures and stress increase exponentially.
Kids Secretly Wish for Moms to Chill Out
Busy parents agonize over finding more time to spend with the kids – but is this feeling reciprocated by the…
Senior Pen Pals
Many senior living communities accept letters and even work with students to establish pen pal connections.
Big-League Reality
Quick question: Should I feel guilty for not wanting to push my kids toward all-star statuses in select sports? If…
Like Bully, Like Kid
No longer limited to pushes on the playground, bullying is now often a 24/7 ordeal, thanks to the surge in social media and the popularity (and anonymity) of mass texting.