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
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
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 ...
Originally Posted on Lifetime Moms
My daughter recently started preschool and because of this, I have been giving a lot of thought to the fact that she has now started a new phase of her life that will last for about the next 20 years – where teachers will sadly be spending ...
Originally Posted on Lifetime Moms
I am really not sure why, but the idea of potty training has stressed me out since my first trimester of pregnancy. Which is really interesting considering I was very single and pregnant in my first (and subsequent) trimesters, but despite all of that – the idea ...
By Guest Writer: TJ Garvin
TJ is my brother-in-law and one of the greatest men I know – Ellie and I love him more than he will ever be able to understand
The first time TJ met Ellie
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