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Moms' Club: The New Happy Hour?

Laura Rossi Totten | Posted 05.22.2012

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Laura Rossi Totten

Why is it that as soon as we become mothers, we are expected to leave our cosmos at the bar and settle for reruns of Sex and the City?

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Top 5 Ways to (Temporarily) Ditch Your Kids

Alex McCord | Posted 05.21.2012

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Alex McCord

Kids are great, and I love mine. Except when they make me want to bury my head under a pillow and scream. Every once in a while, the adorable darlings...

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We Need Some Rules for Boomer Playdates

Ann Brenoff | Posted 04.27.2012

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Ann Brenoff

There was a popular book years ago called "All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten." Lessons included how to share, how to wait your turn and how to line up without touching the guy in front of you.

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Why Can't I Be The Fun Parent?

Devon Corneal | Posted 04.09.2012

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Devon Corneal

Other mothers have confessed that they feel the same way, but they do it quietly. We're all slightly ashamed of our lack of enthusiasm for childlike antics. We leave a lot of the playing to our partners.

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When Parents Just Aren't Enough Fun

David Valdes Greenwood | Posted 01.21.2012

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David Valdes Greenwood

It's not like she can't get one dad or the other to sit on the floor and enact elaborate serial dramas involving Barbie talent shows. But there comes a point when pretend-play fatigue sets in. And we adults reach that point long before she does.

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I Love MY Son... But Yours? Not So Much

| Posted 01.01.2012

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By Caitlin Shetterly (Click here for original article.) It wasn't that I didn't want children; I just didn't yearn for them the way some people do....

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I Cheat On My Toddler

Meredith Lopez | Posted 11.17.2011

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Meredith Lopez

On the flight down to FL, we had a little incident that proved to me once and for all the great lengths I will go to for my son's health and well being.

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Super Mom: Melissa Lopata

Meredith Lopez | Posted 11.17.2011

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Meredith Lopez

When a woman feels creatively, spiritually, and emotionally fulfilled, then she has the mental and physical energy to be the best mom she can be: a Super Mom.

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