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Parenting During COVID-19: It’s a Challenge What do you do when your kid wants to go to that birthday party that all of his other friends are attending? Yes – …
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Parenting During COVID-19: It’s a Challenge What do you do when your kid wants to go to that birthday party that all of his other friends are attending? Yes – …
This Parenting Challenge Was Something That Maria Manna Could Never Have Expected Growing up in an Italian-Canadian household, Maria Manna learned early how to be responsible and to persevere. Yet …
Friendships don’t always last forever There was a time that seeing certain folks was as sure as the sun rose in the morning. These were friendships that we thought would …
How do you start the difficult conversation about racism with your child? A few years ago, I had a difficult conversation with my son Erik about an incidence of racism …
Terrible,Thanks For Asking The Story Behind “The Hot Young Widow’s Club” When Nora McInerny suffered a miscarriage, lost her father to cancer then suffered the loss of her husband, Aaron, …
โNote that my kids arenโt the problem; my aging body isโ โI donโt know how you do it, Sam!โ I hear this often. Itโs apparently supposed to be a compliment. …
Opening Gifts at Birthday Parties is Part of the Fun Shouldย kids open presents at birthday parties? Thereโs a new trend that Iโve noticed that makes me very uncomfortable. I say …
Your Child Has No Friends: Now What? All parents want to see their children happy, engaged and interacting with their peers. In other words, we want our kids to haveย friends. …
Childhood meant something different back in the day “Childhood” not too long ago meant something so different that it does today. It was a certainly a different time, a …
โMom, why does she look different?โ This is a question that many of us have had to grapple with as we raise our kids in an increasingly multicultural and multiethnic …
ย Kids shouldnโt always win. Hereโs why.Iโm against kids โwinningโ at all costs.This refers to the growing trend of lettingย allย kids win and telling them that โeveryoneโs a winner.โEveryone isย notย a winner. Thatโs …
Top 10 Tips For Surviving a Road Trip With Kids โAre we there yet?โ Those four little words are ones that every parent dreads as the family makes it …
You Can’t ‘Babysit’ Your Own Kids. You canโt babysit your own kids. Thatโs fairly obvious. At least in the case of women, or so it seems. Apparently those in possession …
“Meltdown in Aisle 5!” Itโs an inevitability that every parent has to experience. A rite of passage, the โsupermarket shakedownโ is one that indeed shakes your maternal/paternal resolve to …