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17 Things I’d Do Differently As A Parent
If I could do it all again — raise a family — I would, in a heartbeat. But I’d do it a little differently, because hindsight, it turns out, really is 20/20.I realized this not long after my kids left...
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Five Inevitabilities of Parenting
I have four children. I have been a parent for over eleven years. That’s why I know that, like death and taxes, some things are certain in a parent’s life.Here are just five slightly harrowing but...
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10 Things Parents Should Never Do
1. Take a good, close look at your walls. They will make you want to cry and then hose down your house with disinfectant.2. Swear. Even if your kid still pronounces “banana” as “babana,” as soon as you...
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10 Parenting Tips The Experts Won’t Tell You
I’m not a doctor, psychologist, or child development expert, but I do have three kids, one of whom is almost an adult. So naturally I’ve read a ton of parenting books over the years, often hungry for...
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The Only Pieces of Parenting Advice You Need
I became a parent in 1994. And then again in 1995. And 1997. And then, because all of the cool people were having Y2K babies, once more in 2000. That’s four kids. Four kids who all are now teenagers...
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Everything I Learned About Parenting (But You’ll Have to Discover Yourself)
Motherhood – when I stepped into it nearly seven years ago – was not something that I slid into easily, like a pair of soft cotton/spandex yoga pants.Rather, motherhood was more like pulling on a pair...
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50 Lessons in Parenting Young Kids
1. Super glue has no place in a house with young children.2. Neither do Sharpie’s.3. There is no such thing as allowing your kid to play with your phone “just once.”4. Don’t use Google to diagnose...
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15 Things Every Mother Learns
1. Everyone is a fabulous mother until they actually become a mother. We all go into motherhood with grand ideas and intentions. Roughly 86% of those ideas and intentions go out the window within...
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10 Things I’ve Learned in 10 Years of Motherhood
My oldest child is about to turn ten years old. And beyond the feeling that time is flying and the statements about how fast he is growing up, I’m marking the occasion to not only celebrate my son,...
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7 Secrets of Motherhood
So. You saw two pink lines. Congratulations! Welcome to The Order of Motherhood. Sit down. There are some things you should know. Things you’ll never read in any baby book or hear from your OB.Let us...
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36 Things I Know For Sure Right Now
When we brought our first home, I knew nothing about motherhood.Zip. Zero. Zilch.Alright, maybe not nothing, necessarily. I knew about how my mom was a mom to me. How my mother in law was a mother...
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Go To New York, Kids
NYC via ShutterstockThe windows are open and a steady evening rain is starting to fall. There are dishes and laundry and toys as far as the eye can see. For the first time in 14 hours, the house is...
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Pooping During Childbirth: You’ll Survive It, Really
Image via ShutterstockI’m scared of zombies. I’m scared of cockroaches. I’m scared of opening cans of biscuits. (Seriously, if that sudden pop! doesn’t startle you, you’ve got nerves of steel.) But...
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