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
My 28-month-old daughter has always been extremely verbal, and quite smart—putting words together before 18 months and speaking in complex sentences by the time she reached the two-year mark. As she has grown, my parenting worries have gone from “I hope and pray she is developmentally on ...
Originally Posted on Lifetime Moms
Unfortunately, we have all seen the terrible headlines about abuse and neglect by childcare givers, and I think that we can all agree that on some level or another, this scares the sh*t out of every parent that leaves their child in someone else’s care. I happen ...
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 ...
My sister warned me that this would happen.
Well she didn’t specifically tell me that Toy Story underwear would make me cry. BUT she did give me some insight into the depth of love that comes along with parenting.
“You aren’t going to love her right away,” she said when I was about ...
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.
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