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Mom Gives Birth to Family’s 1st Boy in 50 Years

"I just knew I was having a girl."

Parents, It’s Your #1 Job to Get in Your Kids’ Way at All Times. Kids Do Not Deserve Privacy.

I am an assistant principal in a middle school (grades 6-8). When I have to search a student's cell phone, I often get sick to my stomach at what I find. It gets worse and worse every year.

5 Ways You Are Ruining Your Child’s Life Without Even Realizing It

There are five parenting traps that many well-intentioned modern parents fall into without even knowing it.

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Mom Gives Birth to Family’s 1st Boy in 50 Years

"I just knew I was having a girl."

Parents, It’s Your #1 Job to Get in Your Kids’ Way at All Times. Kids Do Not Deserve Privacy.

I am an assistant principal in a middle school (grades 6-8). When I have to search a student's cell phone, I often get sick to my stomach at what I find. It gets worse and worse every year.

5 Ways You Are Ruining Your Child’s Life Without Even Realizing It

There are five parenting traps that many well-intentioned modern parents fall into without even knowing it.

Good Grades Are Nice, But I’d Rather My Kids Pass

There is so much more to school than just making good grades.

“‘I Told Him to Stop! He Pushed Him Again. So I Punched Him, Hard,’ My Son Said”: Mom Praises Son for Defending Bullied Classmate

"I watched the expressions change on the teacher’s faces. After he punched the boy, I took him for ice cream. It is my job as his parent not to stomp out his fire but to teach him to use it for good."

If Dads Only Knew

"A girl’s first and true Prince Charming was always the man who raised her. How many woman have a hole in their heart where the love of a father was meant to go? Sadly, a lot. They attempt to fill that place inside them with the love of a man. Any man."

Kids With ADHD Are Trying to Tell Us Something, And It’s Time for Us to Listen

"Children who truly have ADHD are some of the most creative and innovative people alive, but instead of focusing on what is going on inside their brain, we focus on what we see outside their brain."

Are Sundays Good for Babies?

“Sundays are hard for babies,” a church member said sympathetically as she handed back my crying daughter. It’s a truth universally acknowledged.

If I Had Given Him Just One Bottle, He Would Still Be Alive

He should be ten years old now. "I share his story in hopes that no other family ever experiences the loss that we have."

Why I Had ‘The Talk’ With My 9-Year-Old

I think I have a hangover from the blow to my head and heart still. If you need me, I’ll be over in the corner medicating myself with whatever yummy snacks I can find…

Moms, Just Do the Dishes: Your Kids Will Be Fine

Before you get all panicked that it's another one of those articles that tells you to ignore the dishes until tomorrow because babies grow up to our sorrow let me reassure you: it’s not.