Since I've been in the Mom game for a while (19 years to be exact), I've learned a few things. Not about motherhood per se, because motherhood is crafty. Other things.
I've always known that becoming a parent changed your life, but I didn't realize how until I had my own child. There's a big secret that nobody tells you before you have kids: Parents have superpowers.
We live in a time when we can Google everything, share ideas and expose our children to amazing opportunities, but anyone that implies that they have it figured out is either drunk or lying (or both), so don't be too hard on yourself.
Having identified the ways in which we compound each other's stress, it's easier to laugh at ourselves: "Oh, we're doing that thing again."
Motherhood is, by its very nature, a "giving" job. We give physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually to our children. But we need a sense of proportion and limits when it comes to our kids.
That may sound obvious, but some parents use their children to meet their own emotional needs -- and seem unaware that they're doing so.
The challenge is not that you are going to have conflicts with your children, but whether they develop into full-scale war that drives you and your children apart.
Have you read The Marriage Myth story in the Washington Post? The subtitle of reporter Ellen McCarthy's article is "Why do so many couples divorce? Ma...
It's easy to espouse wise counsel when things are going well. But the truth is, the way we handle the curve balls matters most. Because the truth is, we aren't raising children; we're raising adults.
Researchers from Virginia's University of Richmond say that some women are just biologically programmed with a "bad mothering" brain switch. ...
Here are the five ways you can prevent the trauma of stepping on LEGO bricks.
Parents with stressful lives may be making their children as well as themselves vulnerable to illness, research suggests. A University of Rochester s...
