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Dear Preschooler, This Was Supposed To Be Your Year Too

Dear Preschooler, This was your year. It wasn’t your senior year. You aren’t missing graduation, or prom, or your last few months with your…

Rowdy. Stubborn. Moody. Unpredictable. Independent. Messy. These are the words we use to describe toddlers. Heck, these are words I’ve…

I hate to admit it, but I tend to roll my eyes at small statistics. For instance, the journal Pediatrics reported that the Center for…

This sweet little guy. Today, he wasn’t having it. And, to be totally honest, it frustrated me. I was trying to be the adult and know better and…

I need more time. Eighteen months. Eighteen long, and I mean, VERY long months with my son so far. Staying home and spending 15 hours a day playing…

They were never supposed to sleep with us. It was a conversation my husband and I had when I was still pregnant with our oldest. We didn’t have…

As a mom of three kids four and under, I’ve finally resigned myself to the fact that our house is going to be teeming with toys for, well,…

“Mom, can you open it?” My daughter held out a container of mandarin oranges to me from across the kitchen counter. “Sure,” I answered,…

I am an angry mom. I never used to think of myself as an angry person. Well, I admit that I am impatient and rather short-tempered. But I…

In the last few years, two moms have given me advice I’ve never forgotten. Their advice was simple but profound: there will be time for that later,…