Originally Posted on Lifetime Moms
Earlier this week, Marissa Mayer, Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo, announced that the company would be extending maternity leave and paternity leave. They are allowing moms sixteen weeks of paid time off and dads eight paid weeks off after the birth of a child. New fathers and mothers ...
Originally Posted on Lifetime Moms
There is a child care crisis going on in the United States right now. I recently read two thought-provoking pieces about the lack of affordable, quality child care in the United States and the huge impact it is having on tons of women. There was a point ...
Originally Posted in Lifetime Moms
The First Lady of the United States was being interviewed by CBS News recently, when she accidentally referred to herself as a single mother – which is interesting because last I checked, she was actively married to the President of the United States.
Mrs. Obama was in the ...
Originally Posted on Lifetime Moms
I remember the first time I left my newborn at home so I could run to the grocery store. I felt like the umbilical cord was still attached and was being strained by each step I took toward the door. I’m not sure if that pull was emotional, ...
Originally Posted on Lifetime Moms
If you ever wondered where the mean girls and guys of middle school and high school went, just check a message board of a mom blog and you’ll find ‘em – hypercritical, uber-uninformed and super-perfect in their own lives, of course.
I’m not alone in my observations. Tina ...
Originally Posted on Lifetime Moms
Oh, the great debate over public versus private gives me great anxiety – and no, I am not talking about my Facebook profile settings (which, by the way, I still can’t quite seem to master). I am talking about the internal and external debate over public education ...
Originally posted on Lifetime Moms
Taking a child to the doctor’s office is obviously less fun than say, going to the zoo. Everything from figuring out an appointment time that works to the vaccinations, forces it way down to the bottom of the list of things I like to do. This is ...
So cute, and soooo entertaining int the morning.
Everyone always says that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but as I parent a 2-year-old, I wonder if it is more important than say, sanity.
I am really beginning to wonder.
This is how every morning goes in my house. We wake ...
Originally Posted on Lifetime Moms on 1/22/13
ALSO Posted on Huffington Post 1/29/13
When I got pregnant, I knew very early on that my child was going to be raised in a single mother household. As most of you may know, statistics show that children raised by single mothers (rich or poor, educated or not) ...
Originally Published on Lifetime Moms 1/17/13
As a parent, I learned early on that changes in routine and transitions to a new routine can create upheaval in a child’s world. And depending on the type of transition, changes can be equally as unnerving for Mom – regardless of how anticipated they are.
Last ...
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