For My Unsure Friend Finding Out She’s Pregnant.
Our lives are not the same, and neither are our worries. I see how you fear that you aren’t capable of being a good mom. I feel all good moms fear this, too. We...
Category: Pregnancy and Motherhood.
6 Things Besides the Environment I Started Caring More About After Having Kids.
Having children changed me, even without my meaning for this to happen. I hang out with two little kids all day long, and it’s impossible for this not to shape me. I care more...
When Being a Good Role Model Feels a Lot Like Being The “Bad Guy.”
The sun sets lower in the sky, and it glares through the large picture window in the living room, and onto the girls’ pink-and-white, chevron-patterned teepee. The intensity of this brightness smooths my oldest...
A Mom’s Response to What Is “Healthy Food?”
Recently I was asked by a friend on Facebook if I have a healthy mac and cheese recipe, after I shared this following picture and caption: “They’re not all nastygrams, as we call my...
Why I Pretend to Be Superwoman
I’m not superwoman. I don’t even want to be superwoman, but I don’t have a village. I have my husband, and he’s amazing. He’s more than just a good father—he’s a good parent. I don’t...
Why We Should Ask First Before We Invite Ourselves over to Hold the New Baby.
I’ve had two babies, and both experiences have been completely different, except for one thing: I didn’t want people to hold my baby. Moreover, I really didn’t even want visitors. I’ll use my second experience,...
I Don’t Believe in Crying It out, but Babies Still Cry.
I’m listening to the baby cry. She overly tired, and overly upset, too. She’s in her crib, alternately close to sleep and then standing up in defiance. (We see her on the video monitor.) I...
Capturing Family Magic in a Weekend Society.
Being a mother has not made me a perfect woman. Being a mother has not made my flaws magically go away. Instead, new parts of my personality that I wish would have stayed buried...
It’s Too Easy to Tell Moms to Get off Their Phones
How to parent like a grown up in the age of smartphones: It’s easy to tell mothers that we should never look at our cell phones during the day with our kids. It’s good...
A Reminder That It’s a Phase.
I am not a child psychologist, or even a mother who thinks my behavior and parenting skills are so amazing that they should be globally emulated. I am, however, a loving mom of two....
