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When my son was almost 2 years old, he stopped routinely taking naps in the car. His new alertness made me much more alert of other cars around me, and before I knew it, I had started composing a driving manifesto in my mind. Before then it didn’t matter if we were in the car for … Read more about 8 Things I wish drivers would stop doing in front of my kid
In August of this year, 4-year-old Fae suffered from anaphylactic shock on her flight home from a family vacation. She stopped breathing and lost consciousness 20 minutes into the flight, after a fellow passenger opened a bag of peanuts four rows away. The most disheartening part of the story is that this passenger, along with all … Read more about The parents’ guide to flying safely with food allergies
Note: For the purposes of this conversation, I’m going to use the term “sexting” to include any way that people privately communicate their desires via technology, including sharing explicit photos or words. The nation gasped when we learned about the Colorado “sexting scandal” that’s all over the news. Parents everywhere were shocked to learn that students, primarily … Read more about What your kids need to know about sexting
Sometimes the world our kids are growing up in feels totally foreign to us as parents. When we were little, entertainment was playing outside or watching Saturday morning cartoons. These days, kids have 24/7 access to television, movies, video games, and more. By the age of 12, the majority of kids in America have cell phones, and nearly all kids have … Read more about Even though the world has changed, we can still raise good kids.
You can read until you’re blue in the face about generations past when moms drank while pregnant, kids rode around without car seats, cruised bikes helmet-less, and stayed out passed dark drinking soda mixed with Pop Rocks and eating Ring Dings for sustenance. They all turned out fine, right? But just because kids were parented perhaps a bit … Read more about 8 Things our parents never had to worry about
If you’re an ’80s kid like me, you probably grew up rolling around in the “way-back” of your parents’ station wagon on family road trips. Chances are you were out of a car seat before your toddler years. And who knows if you used a booster. Well, as all 21st-century parents know, things are different now. We know … Read more about New study confirms rear-facing car seats are safest, even if you’re hit from behind
Since I had a baby six months ago, I’ve noticed that people like to tell me two things: 1.) The baby is cute and 2.) I look tired. I have yet to come up with a good comeback to the latter … because I am too tired. But I did compile a handy list of reasons why nobody should … Read more about 16 Reasons why you should never tell a mom she looks tired
Stores and websites tend to have pretty generous return and exchange policies. Parenthood, not so much. Once you have your kids, they are one hundred percent yours — no matter what sort of defects you discover. At times, their flaws are more glaringly apparent than others and you kinda sorta long for those days when … Read more about 18 Times you’d like to give your kids back
For our third child, I ordered an easy baby. But someone didn’t get the memo because little Ben is turning out to be the world’s worst sleeper. I know I’m doing him wrong by rocking him to sleep at night, but I’m desperate. Eager to know what else could be contributing to his lack of … Read more about 7 baby sleep mistakes most parents make (and how to fix them)
When I returned to work after having my first baby, I was a mess — whacked hormones, milk leaking through my blouse, and OMG-I-miss-him-so heartache. I had a busy job and leaving work on time was never easy. At the end of the day, you could find me making a mad dash down 7th Avenue in New … Read more about 5 Friends every Mom needs when she goes back to Work