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Moms, How Do We Know If We’re Doing a Good Job?
I’ll be honest with you. Sometimes I look at other moms and wish I could be more like them. You see that mom calmly talking her obstinate toddler down from a tantrum? Yeah, I’m nothing like her. Or...
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Parents, Teacher Appreciation Week Isn’t About Us
As far as school years go, this one goes down in history. My son’s teacher and I got off to a rocky start. I wrote about it. The world read about it. And I felt compelled to make a conscious choice...
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Dads are Men, Not Idiots
Last week I headed off to a conference for some inspiration, education, and yes, I’ll admit, a little time away. Even though my trip had been planned for the better part of a year, I never put much...
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A Good Mom is a Happy Mom
A little more than a month ago, I lost it. I really and truly lost it. I was struggling with work, my health, my husband, and my kids. Life had gotten busy (so very busy) and I began shutting down in...
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8 Things I Never Understood About My Mother — Until Now
When it comes to motherhood, it’s hard to say who shapes who more — the mother or the child. And even though moms parent with varying moments of warmth, understanding, rigidity, and spontaneity,...
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12 Popular Clichés … According to Kids
“See? It’s a piece of cake!” I said to my 7-year-old son as he finished up his multiplication homework. “What cake?” he asked. “What?” “You said there was cake.” “No, I said it was piece of cake. As...
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Kids Guess the Prices of Milk, Gas, Eggs, and More
Like many kids, my 7-year-old wants for things — many, many expensive things I don’t necessarily have the budget or desire to purchase for him. Besides, that’s what allowances are for, right? Now if...
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I’ll Never Truly Be “Done” Having Babies
As a woman, I’ve spent as much of my fertile life trying to prevent pregnancy as I have trying to facilitate it. At 26, I gave birth to my first child. At 30, I suffered a miscarriage. At 31, I gave...
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Family Vacation
In two days we’ll be packing up the car and heading to the Grand Canyon for what I hope will be a memorable family adventure. With two active kids and miles and miles of road under my fanny pack, I...
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How to Fight on a Family Vacation
Hi there, savvy travelers! Remember me? I’m the one who shared all those do’s and don’ts of family vacations just last week. The one who thought she had it allllllllll figured out. Well, I’m also the...
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36 Things No One Tells You About Parenting an Almost-Teenage Boy
When my eldest son made me a mom, I had no idea what I was doing. I’d never diapered a baby before, or fed one, or really even held one for any notable length of time. Having a baby and not a clue was...
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20 Things That Happen When You Go Grocery Shopping with Kids
As a parent, there are a lot of things we’re forced to learn the hard way. Like, how an exception quickly becomes a rule to a child, or how an injury can occur from the most benign source, or how...
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Dear Friends, If You Only Knew
My Dearest Girlfriends, I’ve wanted to write you a letter of encouragement for a while, but as I sort through collected bits of wisdom scribbled on napkins and old receipts, I realize you’re owed...
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12 Woes of Being a Little Brother
There are times when I look at my sons and can’t help but think how lucky they are. As each other’s first and best friends, they share a history and biology so special, my heart bursts wide open for...
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100 Things That Drive Parents Crazy
While no one ever said parenting was easy, someone should have at least told us how unnecessarily hard it would be sometimes. I know I would have appreciated knowing just how challenging infinitesimal...
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My Son Doesn’t Know What’s Best for Him, I Do
A few weeks ago I dropped my son off at camp for a week of recreational adventure. Believe me when I tell you he wasn’t happy about it. For the last two months — from the initial camp deposit to the...
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The 8 Very Real Stages of Back to School (for Parents)
Last week, my kids returned to school for what I hoped would be the chillest back-to-school season yet. With Boy Wonder ruling the school as a hot shot 8th grader and BooBoo nestling into the...
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100 Perfect Things to Love About Parenthood
Aww, parenting. When it’s good it’s so good, and when it’s bad it’s still pretty amazing. For all the itty-bitty buggy things that make our job harder than it needs to be, there are about a bazillion...
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I Shared ‘The Breakfast Club’ with My Teen 30 Years Later
I recently sat down to watch The Breakfast Club with my son in celebration of the iconic film’s 30th anniversary. To say it was a real moment for me would be an understatement. The movie was, without...
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So I’m Thinking About Placing a Personal Ad for Mommy Friends
I may go by “Mommyfriend” online, but in real life I’m just Lori, a mom who struggles with making mom friends. It’s not that I’m unapproachable or only wear pink on Wednesdays, but connecting with...
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