Advice for real moms by real moms
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When our son was born, my then-husband and I had to figure out our roles as parents. Later when we separated and divorced we had to figure out our roles as sole parents. This transition happened when we were also trying to determine who we were as not-married people. Worse, we had to figure out [...]
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I’m a strong minded-woman but when it comes to parenting, I often second-guess myself. I feel like I’m not being the best mom I can be, because I’m busy, overwhelmed, and so on. When it comes to behaviour that is not bad, just irritating, I am guilty of occasionally opting for the status quo rather [...]
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In the chaos that is my everyday life, I sometimes forget to pay attention to the small shifts going on around me. One of the shifts that I noticed recently is in my teenage stepson. This year he started high school, and with it an intense sports program and a commute by public bus. With [...]
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“Mom, can we wrestle?”
My six-year-old asks me this on a near-daily basis. Sometimes I wrestle, but more often I promise: “Tomorrow, my love.”
One day I actually heard – I mean, I really heard – what I was saying. I was promising to do something in order to not do it at that moment. Considering that [...]
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I’ve had sleeping problems for ages, but now that I have kids? Yeah. Let’s just say I don’t sleep much. We all know it’s the Mom that wakes up at a hair trigger of noise, thinking one of her kids has a need of some sort. Why Dad gets to [...]
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