10 Realistic Tips: Parenting with ADHD.
One of the most prominent ways that my ADHD surfaces as an adult is feeling easily overwhelmed. When I say overwhelmed, I mean at simple, everyday life-things, like a serious pile of dirty dishes,...
One of the most prominent ways that my ADHD surfaces as an adult is feeling easily overwhelmed. When I say overwhelmed, I mean at simple, everyday life-things, like a serious pile of dirty dishes,...
You are no less special because you are second. Instead, it’s cliche-true that you completed our family. I look at your bright smile and feel compelled at gut-level to gently nuzzle you as you...
Every mother out there looks back at how she thought she would parent, before she actually became one—and then laughs her butt off. The following are lifehacks that all new moms should be taking advantage...
I asked my five year old yesterday why she didn’t eat her snack at school. The “none” box was highlighted next to how much she had eaten. She told me because of the other...
Sometimes motherhood feels like punching a time card. To be fair, I only vividly remember doing this at one job. It was my first job, where I worked as a seamstress, and we had...
This is an open rebuttal to an extremely damaging article currently making its rounds via Scary Mommy. I’d like to first openly suggest that had this original post been written from a “skinny mom’s” perspective...
There are days when staying present with my children is not what I want to do. Instead, I want to check out. I want to peruse Facebook or read the news or break out...
One of my current pet peeves is reading a celebrity interview where a Hollywood mother of young children says her workout is “chasing the children.” Come on. We all know it’s not. You have...
For the mother who wants nothing, more than hugs. For the mother who needs nothing, beyond time spent together. For the mother where words of cheerful greeting find they can never be enough, but...
I’ll admit to being a mother who once rolled her eyes when other moms couldn’t have playdates because it was “nap time.” Not that I’m unaware of the extreme importance of keeping regularity within a child’s...