“As I stood over her and spent those last few minutes with her, blood was cascading down my legs and onto the floor. I didn't care - my womb was crying. Everything about me was crying. Watching them wheel her away broke me. My life ended then and there."
Before suiting up in his football gear for a match-up against the Dallas Cowboys last Sunday, Green Bay Packers star receiver, Jordy Nelson, suited up for a completely different event in Texas—one that arguably changed his life forever.
"We often get the impression from the world around us that the goal of parenting is to produce a compliant, well-behaved child. While these are certainly desirable qualities for most parents, they are NOT core qualities that contribute to a happy and healthy human."
“I sit here and silently cry as I rock my sweet baby. How am I supposed to raise him and his two sisters up to leave our home and go into such a scary world?"
When I was eight months pregnant, I asked my brother-in-law what his number one piece of parenting advice would be. He responded with four impactful words...
Society teaches our daughters to show all parts of their body freely, to get what they want by using their sexual prowess, but demand that we aren’t judged by our pants or cup size. Not sure how that works.
