Have a less-stressful holiday with the following hard-won advice: One of my friends, with three kids under the age of five, recently commented that an article she had read about banishing stress stressed her...
How writers can learn to shake it off. I received a message from a reader asking me, as a fellow blogger, how I handle negative comments on my articles. Since I think this conversation is...
Attending to my children’s needs means, sometimes, choosing between their needs and my own. As a mother, this is often the most difficult place to be. At night, I want to cuddle into my...
I took my husband’s last name at the age of 25. We’d already been together for over a decade, and I’d imagined over and over again what this would feel like. My maiden name was...
The yellow leaves practically glow outside the large picture window on the side of our house. The girls’ new teepee sits strategically in a corner that isn’t particularly used; it’s where they go anyways during...
I write primarily about parenting. This means that I regularly have to decide which photographs of my children and myself are appropriate to share and, equally, which words and stories are appropriate too. I...
It’s commonly accepted that stay-at-home mothers give up their lives temporarily, only to reclaim them later on when the kids are older. This is problematic for several reasons, the least being that a parent’s...
No matter where I look, there’s an article about introverts versus extroverts. Just this morning, I read about how I, as an extrovert, am apparently affecting my kids (versus how the introvert parent affects...
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,...
Mostly, I played outside with other kids from my neighborhood—it’s what we did in the early 80’s. Yes, there was a small group of kids that were the children of a group of...
