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Hot Mess is the New Supermom
Nikki Pennington posted a photo on her Facebook page about her messy car and for a second I thought it was mine. Every day I climb into my car and simultaneously knock over quinoa bowls and Whole Foods shopping bags and have to dig seaweed chips from the cup holder. Actually, I'm totally kidding. It's McDonald's bags…
Do You Suffer From MOMXIETY?
Do you suffer, as I do, from the high levels of anxiety that not only wake you up at night, but send you to your child's room to check on their breathing? Do you envision disaster scenarios involving mudslides, snakes, or random wandering kidnappers? Congratulations my friend, you suffer from Momxiety. For those of us who…
Six Types of “Eyes” Parents See Through
By Sheila Dinaburg-Azoff PsyD and Joan Reynolds MS (Adapted from their new book, Parenting in Your Own Voice)
Parents & Worry: Too Much of A Bad Thing
Parenting often feels unbelievably weighty - the smallest decisions loom as the most significant and permanent ones we've ever made – making it natural for us parents to worry excessively about all the wrong things. But natural doesn’t mean good. When my kids were little, I read books to determine what exact age was the…
Obsession with Our Children’s Happiness Could Doom Them
Ive been doing it all wrong.This whole parenting gig.Seriously. After I read the cover story of the July/August issue of The Atlantic, which told parents that if youre focusing on trying to make your kids happy youre likely gearing them up for future therapy sessions to undo all the super-positive, encouraging blather youve been feeding them, I was initially ticked off.