By Christina Herzog Not All Report Cards Are Created Equal
I open up my seven-year-old’s report card and of course he has straight As in every subject. He has excelled…
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By Whitney Fleming Why I’m Encouraging My Daughter to Attend Beauty School
My daughter was two when she started picking out her own outfits, each day looking through her drawers with her…
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By Jessica McCaslin How To Handle “The Talk” With Pre-Teens, From a Mental Health Therapist
As a mental health therapist, I'm familiar with "the talk". I've had a lot of "talks" with children and teenagers…
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By Victoria O'Dell I Am a Special Needs Mom
Special needs mom. Special. Needs. Mom. Three little words, tiny words, but they feel like cement in my mouth.…
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By Melissa Fenton The Most Exhausted You Will Ever Be Is Not When You Have Infants and Toddlers. It’s This.
People told me it would be harder. The been there done that empty nest mothers. They said, “Just wait until…
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By Ashli Brehm She’s More Than Just My Go-To Babysitter—She’s the Daughter I Never Had
Oh, girl. I know you don’t know how it feels. But when you call me “second mom” I get a…
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By Terryn Drieling Kids Are Gross: Mom Finds More Than She Bargained For in the Laundry
There I was, unsuspecting on a Saturday morning, folding the mountain of clean laundry I’d left from last week’s laundry…
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By Shanna Walker You’ll Be a Teenager Soon, But Today You’re Still My Baby
“I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without…
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By Leann Clarke I’m Nursing a Broken Heart Now That You’re Done Nursing
It wasn’t supposed to end like this, sweet boy. This incredible baby manna supplying journey that began with your sister…
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5 Habits That Make Us a Mostly (But Not Annoyingly) Happy Family
A few months ago, I asked the people who live in my house and call me “Mom” a Very Important…
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By Lois Flowers No Matter Life’s Season, God Provides What We Need
When my husband and I adopted our older daughter Lilly 15 years ago, she was nine-months-old and weighed about 17…
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By Her View From Home We Need To Do Better At Talking To Our Kids About Sex
We need to do better, much better, at talking to our kids about sex. This isn't a new concern; it…
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