There are many reasons why I'm going to Mommy Hell when I die, but the latest reason is this: I have stopped reading baby books.
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
It's seems stylish and even respectable again in political and social circles to admit that you may consider motherhood as important as any career, thanks to First Lady Michelle Obama.
Darryle Pollack | Posted 06.30.2009 | Living
I suspect Celina Sotomayor and Candy Spelling don't just have matching initials and famous daughters in common. I suspect they have something else in common: with each other, with me, and with all mothers. They're not perfect.
Amy Nebens and Jara Negrin | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living
My husband doesn't think there is anything cute about our daughter talking about her "boyfriend," nor the pelvic gyration dance she does whenever she gets the chance. I think it's sweet.
Pauline Millard | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living
Is a guy with a 10th grade education also an OB/GYN? "I could smoke crack if I wanted to," I said. "So why don't you make it a large coffee?"
Rachel Pastan | Posted 06.21.2009 | Style
Women have to stop second-guessing the way men put on diapers. They have to engage their partners in serious conversations about money, responsibility and how to figure out who does what.
Molly Magid Hoagland | Posted 06.12.2009 | Living
The imbalance of young childhood must be infuriating. They are so engaged and single-minded, so wholly entwined with us grownups, while we are distracted by our separate lives in the wide world.
Ellen Galinsky | Posted 06.11.2009 | Business
If family-friendly programs and policies are so good for employers and employees, Mrs. Obama asked, then why aren't more companies providing them?
Nicki Richesin | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living
This is what I want to remember this Mother's Day: my five-year-old daughter's joyful face: hazel eyes glowing, sloppy hair hanging in her sweet little face and her magical laugh tinkling in the air.
Ian Welsh | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living
My mother had been broken. The woman she was had died. Like a man who cages a nightingale in his fist, by not letting it have any freedom, my father had killed what he loved.
Rachael Freed | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living
Realizing that life is fragile we feel the urgent need to document our legacies to help shape this unfolding new world.
Michael DeJong | Posted 06.08.2009 | Green
"It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it." ~The Golden Girls We all get one -- a mother that is -- and it's no surprise th...
Sherman Yellen | Posted 06.08.2009 | Living
She had succeeded in making everyone who knew her feel that they mattered. What an achievement for one lifetime.
Jill Brooke | Posted 06.07.2009 | Living
Hallmark doesn't offer a card that says, "Mom, you really let me down. Why didn't you do a better job?"
Leeat Granek, PhD | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living
My mother was my best friend and we could spend hours together without ever getting bored or tired of each other. In fact, there was no one I wanted to spend time with more.
Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics
The stress and struggles women workers and their families undergo while trying to do their jobs are not only a national disgrace -- they're completely unnecessary.
Therese Borchard | Posted 06.05.2009 | Living
This Mother's Day, Postpartum Progress will post a different "Letter to New Moms" every hour. The writers? Survivors of and experts on perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Here's my letter.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 06.04.2009 | Living
Motherhood is the only role I've ever had where I simultaneously feel I am doing pretty well at it and am sure that I know nothing. You'd think that a...
Lisa Solod Warren | Posted 06.04.2009 | Living
How about this Mother's Day we all give ourselves a break, pick up Ayelet Waldman's latest book, Bad Mother, put our feet up, eat some chocolate, and pat ourselves on the back.
Stephanie Gertler | Posted 06.01.2009 | Living
I admit that I've never noticed as many advertisements for Mother's Day as I have since my mother died. The Hallmark cards in Duane Reade assault me as I walk the aisles.
Romi Lassally | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living
While Primoff's actions were obviously reckless, this story has sparked one of America's favorite -- and most judgmental -- conversations about "Bad Mommies.
Michelle Lamar | Posted 05.14.2009 | Living
Since Maddie passed, almost $24,000 has been raised for the March of Dimes.
Peggy Drexler | Posted 05.11.2009 | Living
Michelle is an object lesson in the power of mothers, a reminder that their work is empowering, comforting, instructive and joyous. And more than any time in recent memory, we need it.
Heather Cabot | Posted 05.07.2009 | Living
As we watched our preschoolers take turns in the sand with shovels and pails this morning, I realized that for the first time in a while, we weren't venting about our creative frustration.
Michelle Lamar | Posted 05.04.2009 | Living
My siblings and I don't have our parents, so being able to spit into a cup and find some of the answers to our family health history is a blessing and a tremendous opportunity.
Meredith Lopez | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living