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A Matter of Life: Suicide Awareness and Prevention
Motherhood can be a dream. Nothing compares to welcoming your own children into the world, to watching them take their first steps, to hearing their first words, to seeing them make friends, go to school, graduate, begin their careers, start families of their own... Motherhood can also be a nightmare. Nothing is more agonizing than…
Classroom Mom Horror Stories… And How To Avoid Them!
Whether as the room mom or the hapless volunteer, most moms of school-aged kids have at least one horror story. Its easy to get caught in PTA politics and indulge petty differences.
It’s Not My Job To Make My Kids Happy
I am not my childs friend.Years ago, I overheard a veteran mom speak these words with a confident, dismissive shrug. My kids were tiny then. I was a new mom. Everything parenting was fresh as a summers day.Her callous words felt like a punch to my heart. Of course I was my childs friend! His protector, his confident, his cook, his maid, hiseverything!I was committed to being the …
10 Smartphone Apps Moms Will Love
There aren’t many people busier than a mom trying to wrangle her kids and keep the house in order, especially if that mom also works. You probably know how stressful it is to make it all work out in the end with everybody healthy and happy. Luckily, as the saying goes, “there’s an app for…
Ready, Set, Selfie: Should We Be Concerned About Our Kids On Social Media?
Think your child is only on Facebook and is probably aware of the dangers? Think againand again, and again, and again. Your tweens and teens are on many social media sites, and chances are its not even Facebook. Most parents know about Facebook; heck, most parents are on Facebook. What parents dont know about are the countless other social media experiences their children have on a daily basis. The myriad of bizarre …