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A Modern Mom Quiz: Are You An Empowered Mother?
What does an empowered mother look like these days? Is it the mom who starts her own business? Is it the mother who spends quality time with her kids and snags the VP promotion? Or is it the mom who says no to a five-day workweek and negotiates the clever …
Dressing the Bump: How Our Favorite Celebumoms Manage to Look Chic + Comfortable While Preggers
Stylish maternity fashion is a phenomenon that continues to grow, offering lots more ways to look chic while pregnant. With big-time specialty designers such as Modern Moms style expert Liz Lange, Pea in the Pod and Chiarakruza, and stores such as Gap and H&M targeting the pregnant woman, celebrity moms, …
GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOR ONLY CHILDREN: How Pressure to be Perfect Can Backfire
Families are getting smaller, and have been since the early 1960s, giving parents more time to devote to each child. As a result, parents today all seem to be pushing for star progeny. Children would benefit if parents could temper their dreams. With parents of only children, the tendency …
Why Is My Daughter Friends with THAT Kid?
Dear Melissa, When my daughter Ingrid started kindergarten this September, she took an instant liking to another little girl, Jackie. We like Jackie’s family well enough and think Jackie is mostly a sweet girl, but we feel she is very different from our little one and this concerns us. Our daughter, Ingrid, is an only child in other words, she has the constant attention and guidance of two adults! — and she is the queen of enrichment classes, such as ballet, French, and experimental art classes. Ingrid’s ability to focus is excellent. She has been reading since she was four. She loves museums and sports. She is a quietly happy kid.